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Activists Set to Defy Ban on WVa Mining Protests

BECKLEY, W.Va. - Environmental activists hinted Monday that they may defy a judge's order banning protests at mountaintop removal mine sites run by Virginia-based Massey Energy.

Posted in Activism, climate change, coal, protest

Dirty Coal, Climate Destabilization and the Nonviolent Resistance Movement

All of the significant movements for nonviolent social change must at one point cross a line where its goals become aligned with the power of truth. In the incipient movement against climate destabilization and a destructive and dirty coal industry, I believe that line was successfully crossed on March 2. Its significance far surpasses the symbolic victory of blockading the entrances to the Capitol Power Plant.

Posted in climate change, coal, direct action

Coal Industry Tries to Hide Dirty Facts Behind 'Clean' Claims

The fightback begins here. Well, we can hope. The misleading and downright duplicitous ads against clean coal chronicled here are now being contested by - you guessed it - an ad.

Posted in coal, green wash

EPA Urged to Toughen Coal Ash Rules

The chorus calling for new coal ash regulations appears to be getting louder. On Tuesday, 109 environmental groups wrote a joint letter to the Environmental Protection Agency urging tighter regulations on fly ash and other coal combustion wastes.

The groups wrote that coal combustion wastes pose a serious threat to the environment and public health, and that December's coal ash spill in Tennessee "dramatized the need for federal standards for safe disposal of these wastes, which are virtually unregulated by the EPA."

Posted in coal, Energy, Environment, pollution

Dirty Coal Has Left the Building

The great snow storm has passed. The clouds are parting. The sun is breaking through. Those tiny ripples of hope, that Robert Kennedy once invoked, are beginning to gather near Capitol Hill.

The Capitol Power Plant: It was built at the same time the first Ford Model T cars rolled onto the streets. A century later, the Capitol plant will finally end its use of coal in the age of the iPhone and Blackberry.

Posted in climate change, coal, direct action

Thousands of Youth Demand New Climate Change Policy

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Just blocks away from Capitol Hill, a new conversation is sweeping the streets. Within the crowded sidewalks and cafes along H and 7th Streets, certain words likely will catch your ear: environmental sustainability, green economy, direct action, colonization, coal power plants and capitalism.

Posted in Activism, climate change, coal, direct action, Environment, global warming

The Carbon Addicts on Capitol Hill

Washington has seen its share of big protests over the years, and most of them center on the White House, the Mall or the Capitol. That will change tomorrow, when the first big protest of the Obama era -- and the first mass civil disobedience against global warming in this country -- will take place against the not-very-scenic backdrop of the Capitol Hill Power Plant, a dirty symbol of the dirtiest business on Earth, the combustion of coal.

Posted in Activism, climate change, coal, Energy, Environment, global warming, protest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 27, 2009
2:02 PM

CONTACT: Center for Biological Diversity
Kassie Siegel, (760) 366-2232 x302
Francisca Santana, (onsite in DC on Monday), (707) 338-5531

Center for Biological Diversity Supports Largest Day of Climate Action in US History

Scientists, Youth, and Citizens to Protest the Capitol Coal-Fired Power Plant

WASHINGTON - February 27 - On Monday, March 2, the Center for Biological Diversity, along with more than 90 other organizations and individuals across the nation, will take part in the largest day of action on the climate crisis in U.S. history.

The Capitol Climate Action Coalition has announced that more than 2,500 people have registered to participate in the March 2 Capitol Power Plant protest in Washington, D.C., ensuring that the event will be the largest act of peaceful civil disobedience on global warming to date.

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At the Center for Biological Diversity, we believe that the welfare of human beings is deeply linked to nature - to the existence in our world of a vast diversity of wild animals and plants. Because diversity has intrinsic value, and because its loss impoverishes society, we work to secure a future for all species, great and small, hovering on the brink of extinction. We do so through science, law, and creative media, with a focus on protecting the lands, waters, and climate that species need to survive.

Center for Biological Diversity Links:

Posted in Activism, climate change, coal, Environment, global warming, protest

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 24, 2009
12:21 PM

CONTACT: Potomac Riverkeeper and Waterkeeper Alliance
Robin Broder, Director of Operations, Potomac Riverkeeper
Phone: 202-222-0706
Fax: 202-783-0444

Clean Coal? National Campaign Aims to Get Coal Industry to Come Clean

WASHINGTON - February 24 - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Chairman of Waterkeeper Alliance, announced today the launch of the group's first national anti-coal campaign. Called "The Dirty Lie," the campaign is intended to create broader awareness of the destructiveness of coal-from its role in propping up an antiquated fossil-fuel-based economy to its adverse effects on the environment and the health of millions of Americans-and, ultimately, to bring about a change in national energy policy. "Simply stated, clean coal is a dirty lie," Kennedy said.

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Potomac Riverkeeper, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) organization whose mission is to protect and restore water quality in the Potomac River and its tributaries through community action and enforcement. Executing this mission since its formation in 2000, Potomac Riverkeeper is an effective advocate for clean and safe water in the Potomac Watershed. The organization houses the Potomac Riverkeeper and the Shenandoah Riverkeeper.

Waterkeeper Alliance is one of the world's fastest growing grassroots environmental organizations with nearly 200 Waterkeepers defending and advocating for rivers, lakes and other waterways on six continents.

Posted in Activism, coal, Environment

Powershift09 to Capitol Power Action: Follow the Young

"The older I get the better I know
that the secret of my going on
Is when the reins are in the hand of the young,
who dare to run against the storm"

Ella Baker's Song, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Sweet Honey in the Rock

Posted in Activism, coal, Environment, protest