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This evening the Humane Society will be honoring Members of Congress as Humane Federal Legislators of 2009. Top rank:
House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., for his leadership on the
Restore Our American Mustangs (ROAM) Act to overhaul the Interior Department’s management of wild horses on public lands and restore the prohibition on the [...]

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There are few people more beloved by generations of America’s parents and America’s youth than Dr Seuss, the (One indicator: search Dr Seuss and there are only 3.6 million web hits.)
Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr Seuss) had a real passion on the environment. From the bio at Suessville.com,
On a broader spectrum, however, Ted [...]

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Speaking of arsenic,
If you put some on my cereal, it might not be very tasty …
So says Donald McGraw, a Minority (Republican Party) witness at the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment hearing on Drinking water and Public Health Impacts of Coal Combustion Waste Disposal.

Have to say that I thought that I’d [...]

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This cross-post from DWG provides an excellent perspective on the heavily peer-reviewed study, just published in Science magazine, that provides strong material about the serious health (environmental and human) implications of Mountain Top Removal (MTR).  For links to numerous other discussions, see here.

The rapacious polluters in the coal industry are celebrating. The approval of a [...]

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After a volunteer team effort, a group of scientists has published heavily scrutinized article in Science (”this is the most heavily peer-reviewed paper I’ve ever published“) calling for an immediate moratorium on the mountaintop removal war (MTR) on Appalachia.   Acoording to the press release of the article (to appear in the 8 January issue),
“The scientific [...]

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As Polluter Watch reminds us,
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the largest coal-related slurry spill in American history. Early on the morning of December 22, 2008, a waste containment system at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee failed catastrophically, releasing one billion gallons of toxic coal sludge into the surrounding [...]

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It is not hard, when it comes to climate change, to see signs for grave concern and pessimism. Ice is in retreat and decline globally. The oceans are acidifying. Habitats are moving up hill and moving away from the equator. The reality of climate chaos is with us and the end of COP15 [...]

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While the denialosphere is shouting about “ClimateGate” and traditional media turn their attention to SwiftHack, the Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) released a report that should be on the front page of every newspaper, discussed passionately on every talk show, and be heard about by every adult American. While aware of the impacts of [...]

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This is part of a series of brief posts on ‘clean energy jobs’ opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me.
Clean Energy Jobs Blow In (not blow up) Coal River Mountain: $250 million per year for 25,000 jobs
We often hear about how coal mining is [...]

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Below is a guest post by Clem Guttata from WVABlue, providing a window on the
Your lights are on,
but you’re not home,
your will is not your own
Might as well face it you’re addicted to coal.
Appalachia suffers from a resource curse. Coal mining wealth is illusory–the benefits have long been obvious to those dependent on Big Coal [...]

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