Monday, November 3rd, 2008

The following email was sent to the 32,000 supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.

I wanted to follow up on Mary Anne’s email yesterday, and to thank her for her incredible leadership at iLoveMountains.org.

Thanks to her hard work and vision, more than 32,000 Americans have come together online to stop mountaintop removal coal mining. And hundreds of thousands more have learned about the dirty secret behind “clean coal.”

All of us here at iLoveMountains.org wish her luck as she heads out to carry on the fight against Big Coal at the Sierra Club.

And as Mary Anne pointed out, we’re looking forward to the opportunities that a new Congress and a new Administration will present in our efforts to stop mountaintop removal coal mining.

But before the next president and the new Congress are sworn in, we need to do all we can to stop the last-ditch attempts by the lame-duck Bush administration to enshrine the worst abuses of mountaintop removal coal mining into law.

That’s exactly what the Bush administration is trying to do right now with its 11th-hour change to the “stream buffer zone” rule.

If adopted, the new Bush rule would exempt coal companies from a law that prohibits surface coal mining activities from disturbing areas within 100 feet of streams. The end result would be thousands of miles of our nation’s mountain streams destroyed, and up to 700 mountains destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining over the next decade, according to one estimate.

We can stop this last-minute give away to Big Coal. Simply click the link below to send an email to Senator John McCain, Senator Barack Obama, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, and the US Office of Surface Mining.

http://iLoveMountains.org/action/sbz/

Note that the deadline for contacting the EPA is November 23rd, 2008.

Thank you for taking action!

Matt Wasson

iLoveMountains.org

P.S. The ad shown in this email was also placed in The Richmond Times Dispatch as well as The Washington Post. Please join with the readership of these publications and taking action today!

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