Inspire America to end mountaintop removal

OH solution!!!!! Break the back of the mining company, You'd have better luck going that way.

Lisa Jackson....... hmmmmm.........administrator for EPA......... hmmmm, do you think she doesn't know what it looks like and that it needs to stop, I guess it all depends on who is offering the biggest payout to which ever group supports the "who's " latest project. money talks. Dream on.

we gotta stop this

laying the mountains low is the best way i know to piss off mother nature. unfortunately the ones in her path don't even live there.

Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay
Well I'm sorry my son but your too late in asking
Mr Peabody's coal train done hauled it away

Paradise is being ripped apart for coal company greed. I was in WV and saw the devastation first hand this summer. The coal companies literally knock the top of the mountain off, scoop out the coal, and dump the remainder down in the valley where it eventually ends up in the water.

Both Bush and Obama have supported this type of mining.

One can also write to WV's Environmental Advocate, Pamela Nixon at Pamela.Nixon@wv.gov. Her toll free number is toll free line - 1-800-654-5227. She is a WV state employee.

Human selfishness at its worst.
I have an idea...make the company's owners live in Appalachia themselves. Bet the mountain top mining would stop very quickly. Greedy idiots

Grid tie, net metering solar energy would feed power into the grid at exactly the time when peak load causes utilities to use their most inefficient generating capacity. When the sun is at its highest and brightest.

The very energy the grid is struggling at maximum output to overcome(solar) would be captured and fed into the grid.

And the people who use less than they consume would be paid by the utility for the amount of power that they feed into the grid.

What could be better? Every kWh of solar energy is one kWh less that coal is needed for.

Thank you! It must be terrible (understatement) to live there, not only heartbreaking to see your home and the natural world disappear into a vortex of hell, but to have to endure the noise, air pollutants, destroyed water ways, and more, as well.

As the fires raged around Los Angeles this past week, the temperatures in the valley over 100 degrees and some days over 110, with very little oxygen left to breathe, terrible air non-quality, - as people expressed their stress (most of us felt horrible), I couldn't help but remind them of what is happening in Appalachia - we endure for a short period, they endure for how long and with what? I also pointed out that every time their air conditioner goes on there goes another mountain top!

To EPA Administrator Jackson:

An American legacy being destroyed. An environmental genocide. A health threat to the people. These are just a few of the effects of mountaintop removal. The devastation, toxic waste, and total disrespect for land that should be preserved in its natural beauty for future generations is slowly taking our legacy from us. There is no need to do this. There are alternatives. There are other cleaner safer energy sources we could market aggressively to spawn a new age of change akin to the Civil Rights movement and the Women's Suffrage movement. The sad part of this is that we have a choice, and we continue to make the wrong one. Please, visit Appalachia and see all we can preserve by making the right choice.
Thank you.
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Please sign the petition at the link and send your letter to the EPA. We have to keep the pressure on to end this devastating destruction.