RAN DC Delivers Over 6,000 Public Comments To EPA
Yesterday was the end of the public comment period for the April 1st guidelines that put tougher standards on mountaintop removal mining permits. So we stuffed the public comments into…
Big Coal Launches Assault On EPA
The sharks smell the blood in the water. The opposition is emboldened. Whatever are we to do? After the “shellacking” that the Dems took at the hands of the teabaggers…
Politicians Hooked On Coal
The coal industry in the United States is in a precarious position these days. Upcoming EPA regulations could force hundreds of small coal-fired power plants to shut down and would…
Why Coal Ash Needs Regulating
The EPA has been holding public hearings on its coal ash regulations regulatory proposals across the US this Fall. The final public hearing is scheduled for Knoxville, TN next week,…
EPA Takes One Step Closer to Spruce Mine Veto
The Spruce No. 1 mountaintop removal mine in West Virginia came one step closer to a veto today. The EPA released recommendations made by their Region 3 Administrator who oversees…
RAN Pays Illegal Dumping Fine + Video
Last week I traveled to West Virginia with a few friends and loaded a pickup truck with dirt from the coalfields. We then drove the dirt to the EPA’s headquarters…
EPA: Don’t Let King Coal Dump on US
Today RAN and our friends in DC dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachian dirt onto the front lawn at the EPA’s headquarters. Our message? “EPA: Don’t let King Coal dump on…
EPA Visits Mountain(top Removal) In Kentucky
On Tuesday I went to the town of Hazard in Perry County, Kentucky. It’s a surreal-looking place, if you get up out of the valley onto any viewpoint the panorama…
Philly Activists Protest EPA
Anti-mountaintop removal (MTR) activists in Philadelphia set up a lemonade stand in front of EPA’s region 3 office yesterday afternoon. But this lemonade was made with “contaminated” water to represent…
A letter to Lisa Jackson from West Virginia
Yesterday we learned the news that the EPA has, yet again, flip-flopped on mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining and given the go-ahead to new mining at Pine Creek in Logan…