A new campaign is awarding individuals who close their CHASE bank accounts with a limited edition “Mountains Rule” badge. CHASE is the lead funder of MTR — Mountaintop removal — which Robert Kennedy Jr. calls the “worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.” The tops of the mountains are blown off (the equivalent of 1 Hiroshima bomb every 2 weeks) and the debris is dumped into the rivers and streams. [...]
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Please take a minute right now, and let the folks at the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) know that mountaintop removal mining needs to be banned. Get link here… [...] Trying to end the practice of mountaintop removal mining (MTR) by reducing the amount of debris that can be dumped into adjoining valleys is sort of like trying to end genocide by limiting the height of the mass graves in Darfur. Attacking the symptom will not make the root cause go away. It is a start, [...] [...] Trying to end the practice of mountaintop removal mining (MTR) by reducing the amount of debris that can be dumped into adjoining valleys is sort of like trying to end genocide by limiting the height of the mass graves in Darfur. Attacking the symptom will not make the root cause go away. It is a start, [...] [...] |
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