by MCDC | Jan 27, 2015 | Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Global Warming, Issues, Keystone XL, Mountain Top Removal
by MCDC | Oct 27, 2014 | 2016 General Election, Climate Change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Fracking, Keystone XL, Mountain Top Removal
It wasn’t long ago that coal executives were openly discussing their dream of Republicans seizing the White House and making Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe — who believes climate change is a “hoax” concocted by greedy scientists — the head of the EPA. Coal companies...
by MCDC | Feb 10, 2014 | Action Alerts, Coal, Environment
On February 3, a Duke Energy coal ash pond ruptured—spilling more than 80,000 tons of coal ash into North Carolina’s Dan River. Enough toxic sludge to fill 73 Olympic-sized pools. But this was no accident. In the past year, three Clean Water Act lawsuits were filed...
by MCDC | Jan 25, 2014 | Coal, Environment, Virginia
By Mary Anne Hitt We know the coal industry is getting away with poisoning our waterways nationwide, and a new study of federal data by the Associated Press shows just that. Coal industry chemicals and waste “have tainted hundreds of waterways and groundwater...
by MCDC | Dec 11, 2013 | Action Alerts, Coal, Environment, Issues, Virginia
by Mary Anne Hitt Today, Appalachian community leaders are in Washington, D.C., to protest a Virginia coal boondoggle that has set its sights on $2 billion of your federal tax dollars. Mountaintop removal coal mining is already a shocking, devastating, and destructive...
by MCDC | Nov 12, 2013 | Action Alerts, Coal, Mountain Top Removal, Virginia
The Federal Highway Administration is preparing to seal the fate of the Coalfields Expressway project and they need to hear directly from you that this project is nothing more than a mountaintop removal project being disguised as a highway. Please join us in...
