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• Bad Manners: India to Big Mining Co: Take This Mine and Shove It

  August 26, 2009

  • Last fall, Tom Zeller at The New York Times Green Inc. blog wrote an eye-opening piece on a possible Indian government and corporate venture in Appalachia's coal mines. And as the Sierra Club's Carl Pope pointed out, an even bigger coal story took place this week in India. Members of parliament from various political parties in the eastern part of the state of Maharashtra put aside their ...
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• New York is Burning (Mountaintop Removal Coal)

  May 26, 2009

  • from NY Indypendent, May 15, 2009When the marquee signs on Broadway light up, a signal will most likely be sent from the New York Independent System Operator grid to the Lovett coal-fired plant, where the facility service will shovel in coal strip-mined from West Virginia mountains that have been clear cut, detonated with tons of explosives and toppled into the valleys.In effect, Mayor Michael ...
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• An Open Letter to Al Gore: Speak Now Against the Rape of Coal River Mountain

  November 25, 2008

  • posted on Huffington Post/Grist, November 25, 2008 Dear Al Gore,Two months ago at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, you declared that, "If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that ...
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