Anti-MTR Activists Risk Arrest at EPA HQ with Elaborate Protest
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In an attempt to further pressure EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to enforce the Clean Water Act and halt mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR), activists erected two 20-foot-tall, purple tripod structures in front of the agency's headquarters.
A pair of activists perched at the top of the tripods have strung a 25-foot sign in front of the EPA's door that reads, EPA: pledge to end mountaintop removal in 2010.
Six people are locked to the tripods and say they wont leave unless Administrator Jackson commits to a flyover visit of the Appalachian Mountains and MTR sites, which she has never done before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vG1dkckxyI
A pair of activists perched at the top of the tripods have strung a 25-foot sign in front of the EPA's door that reads, EPA: pledge to end mountaintop removal in 2010.
Six people are locked to the tripods and say they wont leave unless Administrator Jackson commits to a flyover visit of the Appalachian Mountains and MTR sites, which she has never done before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vG1dkckxyI
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