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Mountaintop [Coal] Removal, Part II: Is a stream without fish still a stream?
[When we last left our dueling bloggers, they were reading Erik Reece's Death of a Mountain. And now, part 2, as continued from the first part of the conversation, wherein -- beyond the Reece article...
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Mountain Top Removal Update: Oprah’s In On It Too!
Grist has been posting many excellent links, discussions, and interviews about Mountaintop Coal Removal in the Appalachians. It’s been a while since we added to our MTR posts (one, two, three, four),...
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Wish You Were Here!
Check these out: “postcards” from Appalachia have been placed as ads on Washington DC Metro. The new ad campaign –from the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OHVEC and at this new website, Stop...
View ArticleMountaintop Rescue
Honestly, I didn’t intend to barrage the site with this series of MTR posts, but a lot of news came through in the past few weeks. One is this New York Times Editorial on Mountaintop removal legal...
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Mountaintop Coal Removal Commentary
Looks like cartoon week is continuing in these parts; perhaps we have a cartoon month on our hands. The above is from The New Yorker, back on Nov. 19, and offered now as a long-awaited continuation to...
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What’s New In Environmental Destruction: Feb Edition
Clearly there is now a growing need for a special section at the bookstore on Mountaintop Removal (MTR). We made a section at this blog for MTR posts when we started, since it is an issue of local...
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What’s your connection to Mountaintop removal? See here.
I’m continuing to play up this same theme of blowing up mountains not to beat a dead horse but because not many people, still, know about the horse. Click below for a link that shows how you personally...
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Your Connection to Environmental Destruction: Coal Does More Than Keep the...
The Washington Post ran an excellent story on Mountaintop Removal (MTR) in West Virginia on the front page of this week’s Sunday paper. The story is notable for several reasons. “This area once was...
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Bush, Mountaintops, and the Midnight Rule Name Game
The Bush Administration put Mountain Top Removal (MTR) on its list of “midnight rules” – a parting shot at the end of this administration in favor of an environmentally destructive industry, a final...
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Mowing Down the Mountains
Alright, Nicky’s telling me some people had trouble accessing the Washington Post graphic I linked to in yesterday’s MTR post. So here it is, reprinted below in full. This shows how a mountain–called...
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