Archive for December, 2010
The following email was sent to the 46,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.
With only two days left in 2010, can you help us gather the resources we need to end mountaintop removal coal mining by making a special year end gift to iLoveMountains today?
Yes! I want to end mountaintop removal coal mining in 2011:
http://ilovemountains.org/donate
Did you know that iLoveMountains supporters alone have sent 163,000 letters to Congress, the Senate, and Executive agencies in the last 4 years? As a result, we achieved great things in 2010: we earned a record 173 Congressional co-sponsors for the Clean Water Protection Act, the EPA took bold steps to protect waterways, and the Army Corp of Engineers discontinued the rubberstamping mountaintop removal valley fill permits. Big Coal heard loud and clear that the days of destroying mountains for coal are coming to an end!
Yet 2011 will be even more pivotal in the fight to end mountaintop removal coal mining. As a result of the victories we celebrated this year, the coal industry will fight harder than ever.
We need to ensure that we have the resources we need to beat Big Coal and their lobbyists, who are pulling out all the stops to keep their hold on the mountains we love.
Whether you’re able to contribute $25, $50, $100 or more, every dollar of your special year-end contribution goes directly to groups working to end mountaintop removal coal mining.
And your contribution today will ensure that your voice will be heard from the grassroots to Washington, DC throughout 2010.
Click here to make a tax-deductible contribution today
Thank you for doing everything you can to help end mountaintop removal coal mining.
Matt Wasson
iLoveMountains.org
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The following email was sent to the 46,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.
Last month, we wrote to ask you to send a comment to the EPA, and to tell them to stand firm on proposed new rules that would protect our nation’s streams from the effects of mountaintop removal coal mining.
In just two weeks, more than 8,200 comments were submitted to the EPA — an amazing show of strength that will have a critical impact on the EPA’s final decision.
It’s responses like that, from people like you, that have made 2010 a pivotal year in the movement to end mountaintop removal coal mining.
Can you help us keep the momentum going in 2011 by making a contribution today?
http://ilovemountains.org/donate
Every time we’ve asked, you and more than 47,000 people like you have taken action — spreading the word among friends, speaking up to Congress, sending in comments to regulatory agencies, and making sure the world knows that the days of destroying mountains for cheap coal are numbered.
That support has made a tremendous difference. In the past year:
- We’ve grown our ranks by more than 20%.
- We’ve sent more than 160,000 letters to Congress, the Senate, and Executive agencies.
- Thousands of ordinary citizens have traveled to Washington or visited with their representatives during in-district visits.
And all that effort paid off:
- The Environmental Protection Agency has taken unprecedented steps towards protecting waterways impacted by mountaintop removal.
- The Army Corp of Engineers has discontinued its Nationwide Permit 21, which allowed for fast-track approval of mountaintop removal valley fill permits.
- And we end the 111th Congress with a record 173 cosponsors for the Clean Water Protection Act, which would help keep mining waste out of our streams.
None of this would have been possible without your continued support. That’s why we’re writing to ask for your contribution today.
Any amount you can afford to give — whether $25, $100, or $500 — goes directly to supporting our campaign to end mountaintop removal, and gives us the critical resources we’ll need in 2011:
Click here to contribute today.
Thank you for doing everything you can to help end mountaintop removal coal mining.
Matt Wasson
iLoveMountains.org
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The following email was sent to the 45,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.
The Environmental Protection Agency is getting ready to close public comments on important restrictions on mountaintop removal coal mining.
Will you taken a minute to submit your comment?
It is critical that the EPA hear from citizens that strict restrictions on mountaintop removal are necessary in order to protect the communities and waters of Appalachia.
Last April, the EPA issued draft guidelines to minimize the practice of “valley fills” — which bury streams and poison Appalachia’s water sources — unless they meet a high standard. And every day since, Big Coal has argued that the rules are too costly and need to be overturned.
Will you take a moment to tell the EPA to stand firm on limiting the devastating effects of mountaintop removal coal mining?
Click here to contact the EPA today, but hurry, the deadline is Dec 1st: http://ilovemountains.org/epa-guidance
Submitting a comment takes just a few moments. Please, act now.
Thanks for all you do,
Matt Wasson
iLoveMountains.org
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