Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Okay, regular readers and visitors know how we feel about mountaintop removal coal mining. We don’t like it. It must stop. It must stop NOW! I come back to this over and over: first, because we have to stop living off this destruction, we must break our cheap [...]
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Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Regular visitors and subscribers to this blog know I have an intense pet peeve with the practice of blowing up magnificent, ancient Appalachian Mountains to get to coal seams. If you don’t know about the practice yet, or aren’t moved by it yet, click on our Resources tab [...]
Tags: Appalachian Mountains, clean water act, clean water protection act, mountaintop coal mining, mountaintop removal
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: Really, I don’t know how else to describe what he’s doing as he mercifully prepares to leave the White House. From drilling in fragile ecosystems to blowing up mountains to pushing policies that will increase pollution and noise in our public parks and forests… I have wondered this [...]
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