by MCDC | Dec 22, 2013 | Environment, Global Warming, Issues
by Kiley Kroh Organizations that actively block efforts to address climate change are funded by a large network of conservative donors to the tune of nearly $1 billion a year, according to the first in-depth study into the dark money that fuels the denial effort....
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...
by MCDC | Oct 1, 2013 | Environment, Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
RICHMOND, Va. — A federal judge has certified a handful of lawsuits as class actions accusing two energy companies of cheating southwest Virginia residents out of tens of millions of dollars in royalty payments for natural gas drilled on their land. The lead attorney...
by MCDC | Sep 11, 2013 | Action Alerts, Environment, Events, Global Warming, Issues, Keystone XL, Video
350.org Last week the Canadian government sent a letter to President Obama offering vague promises of reducing carbon emissions from the tar sands in return for the right to build the pipeline. Scientists and energy analysts quickly pointed out that this was nonsense...
by MCDC | Sep 9, 2013 | Environment, Ethics, Issues, Keystone XL
The relentless Canadian lobbying for the Keystone XL pipeline continues today when the Canadian Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver heads to Washington to push for the pipeline. During the trip, he will meet U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz for their first...
