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The Blogger's Challenge
Join today! - The iLoveMountains.org Blogger's Challenge makes it easy to spread the word with customizable "Spread the Word" widgets, embeddable videos, coal tracking widgets, and RSS feeds.
EPA's Mountain destruction update
Last year, the EPA ramped up their review of pending mining permits in Appalachia. Of the permits they identified, 106 have been denied or withdrawn, 86 are pending review, and 18 were approved. Explore our interactive map to learn more.
Debunking the "Reclamation" Myth
The results are in -- mountaintop removal reclamation is a big, flat LIE!
Appalachian Heroes in Congress
7th Annual Week in Washington!
On June 2-6, The Alliance for Appalachia and our allies are converging on lawmakers and federal agencies in Washington, D.C. to lobby for an end to mountaintop removal coal mining.
[ Apply now and check out our agenda. ]
"What we do to the land,
we do to the people"
According to 21 new scientific studies, people living near mountaintop removal and other types of coal mines suffer higher cancer rates, more birth defects, and have shorter life spans than other people in Appalachia.
Check out the new interactive health mapping feature on iLoveMountains.org or read summaries of the key findings of these 21 studies and you'll understand why Appalachian people have long been saying: "What we do to the land, we do to the people."
Poll: Appalachian People Strongly Oppose Mountaintop Removal
Please share the results with your representative!
Progress in the US House
Many great people like you helped us gain over 100 cosponsors on the Clean Water Protection Act
The best defense is a good offense. As Big Coal and their allies in Congress continue attempts to gut public health and environmental protections, the Clean Water Protection Act (H.R. 1375) has 121 cosponsors and counting.
Sponsored by Frank Pallone of New Jersey and David Reichert of Washington state, this bill would go a long way towards ending mountaintop removably make it illegal for toxic waste from mountaintop removal mines to be dumped into our headwater streams.
