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Somewhere along the line we failed. I think the failure was actually multi-generational. But I’m pretty sure it began sometime around my generation. At some point we quit teaching our children the things our fathers and grandfathers taught us. Knowledge of the mountains that had been passed down from one generation to the next now forever lost. [...] (Images credit, NASA – Years represented – 1984, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009) Below the densely forested slopes of southern West Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains is a layer cake of thin coal seams. To uncover this coal profitably, mining companies engineer large—sometimes very large—surface mines. This time-series of images [...]
‘Clean’ Coal? Don’t Try to Shovel That. Clean coal: Never was there an oxymoron more insidious, or more dangerous to our public health. Invoked as often by the Democratic presidential candidates as by the Republicans and by liberals and conservatives alike, this slogan has blindsided any meaningful progress [...] If I were asked why I speak out against mountaintop removal, my friend Ronnie would have to be a part of the answer. I grew up with Ronnie. His family was like a second family to me. The times I wasn’t out hunting and enjoying the mountains with my dad and my grandpas I was out [...] Just when I think I have heard every ridiculous statement the coal industry and their puppets have to say about the so-called benefits of mountaintop removal I open an email alert and read this little gem from Congressman Zach Wamp of Tennessee - Coal Companies Help Environment by Blowing Up Mountains, Wamp Says “The way it’s done [...] Join Rainforest Action Network and thousands of friends on the internet as we send a message to JP Morgan Chase to stop financing mountaintop removal! JP Morgan Chase is the largest financier of mountaintop removal coal mining, investing hundreds of millions of dollars into a real American tragedy. Mountaintop removal is the highly destructive mining practice that [...] This post obviously does not account for all of the news over the last 30 days, it is just the news I have been paying particular attention to. First of all I was glad to see Senator Brown from Massachusetts get elected. I didn’t like how the Senate was trying to push a 2008 page health [...] Palmer MTR Science 2010 Download the pdf file here – http://endmtr.com/palmer_mtr_science2010.pdf |
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