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A moment of truth has arrived for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and President Barack Obama, who has promised unprecedented steps to rein in the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining that is wrecking havoc acro...

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In Watchdog Earth

It got ugly in West Virginia and Pikeville last night, with coal supporters shouting down opponents of mountaintop removal mining at Army Corps of Engineers hearings:... hundreds of coal supporters repeatedly jeered and shouted down mountaintop-remov...

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In Climate Progress

Since health care reform is on the Senate agenda right now, I'm reposting this Think Progress piece. Looks like the WV Chamber is a chip-off-the-block of the incredible shrinking U.S. Chamber. Coal use, of course, is one reason why everyone needs...

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In WattHead

Or should I say, the obviously abhorrent...The incredibly destructive coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal causes pervasive and irreversible damage to human health and the environment, according to an authoritative scientific study r...

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In Watchdog Earth

There's been a lot of talk on the cable news shows about how President Obama likes to find middle ground.Take, for example, his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan -- not quite as many has his generals originally asked for, while also pledgin...

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In DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science

debate_01.jpg Yesterday, we liveblogged a debate in Charleston, West Virginia between Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Here's Part 1 of that wrap-up.AnalysisBroadly, Don B...

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In WattHead

High up in the trees near the summit of Coal River Mountain, two activists dangle in the air near a mountaintop removal mine site. Eric Blevins and Amber Nitchman are still preventing the expansion of mining on the summit of Coal River Mountain, a m...

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In GristMill

By David Roberts Listen Play To Go Home by M. Ward: M. Ward is a rarity: an artist who started out as something of a novelty act but has gotten consistently better, blossoming into one of the most expressive, interest...

In Treehugger

Image courtesy of CSANeed more evidence that the Arctic ice cap is slowly going the way of the dodo? Traveling with a team of scientists and Canadian troops during a recent expedition on Ward Hunt, BBC Environment Correspondent David Shukman bore wit...

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In DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science

Arctic scientists are reporting today that a four-square-kilometer chunk of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has broken off. As reported in the Globe and Mail:Scientists say the break, the largest on record since 2005, is the latest indication that climate c...

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