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Mountain Top Coal Mining Halted! Celebrate and Thank the E.P.A. Literally! Thank the E.P.A.!

Joseph Raglione
September 12, 2009
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, break out the Champaign and celebrate because I have some great news from the Sierra Club! Mountain top Coal mining has been halted by the Environmental Protection Agency. The E.P.A. is no longer a tool for destruction and it has taken a baby step towards halting mountain top destruction by the Coal Mining companies.

Destroying Mountain Tops is a system of mining that the EPA should never have allowed to exist. It is now doing what it was designed to do, and that is work to protect the environment. All the E.P.A. has to do now is block the "Clipper" Oil Pipeline from spreading the GOO throughout the United States! Celebrate and keep fighting tooth and nail for change!...>

Dear Joseph,

Thank the EPA for taking a major step toward ending mountaintop removal mining!

We have very big news to share on mountaintop removal coal mining.

After eight long years of rubber-stamp permits during the Bush Administration, the EPA announced Friday that all 79 mountaintop removal permits submitted by the Army Corps of Engineers would likely violate the Clean Water Act.

Your show of support for the EPA's likely denial of these permits is critical to continue the momentum to end mountaintop removal coal mining. Thank the EPA today.

This is one of the most dramatic actions yet taken by the Obama administration to halt a process that destroys our lands and pollutes our communities with toxic mining waste.

Now the Army Corps has 60 days to review and revise their proposals, and we expect coal companies to spend this time pulling out all the stops in attacks on the EPA. King Coal will say and do anything they can to get away with as they try to reverse this decision.


Together we can make sure the EPA has the support it needs to stand strong against the coal industry. Thank them for taking a huge step toward ending mountaintop removal coal mining today!

Friday's announcement is a stark reminder that the coal industry is the beneficiary of loopholes that no other industry enjoys. It is time to close these loopholes, protect public health, and return the rule of law not just to Appalachia, but to all of America. It's time to end the hideous practice of mountaintop removal coal mining once and for all.

The EPA just took the first step--let them know we support efforts to regulate, and eventually end, mountaintop removal coal mining.

Thanks for all that you do to protect the environment.

Bruce Nilles

Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign

P.S. Please forward this email to friends and family. Want to know more? Check out my blog post on the EPA's announcement.

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About Joseph Raglione
Hi! I am the executive director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist in 1969 and basically, never stopped! I Graduated College in Social Science and registered as a non-profit corporation in 1988 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am one of a very few non-profit and generic freedom loving journalists left on Earth, and I continue today to study and to understand the problems connected with human activity on this Planet. My affiliates include: GreenPeace, the Nature Conservancy, the Bio-diversity organization, the Sierra Club, the David Suzuky foundation, the WWF, Amnesty International, World Vision, the IUF organization; as well as the wonderful and independant N.A.S.A. scientists studying our Planet's weather systems. Of course NASA also studies the mysteries of the Eternal Universe with satelite generated images and, over the years, have generously allowed me and thousands of our world scientists to study over their shoulder's via the Internet.
In spite of some past U.S. government repression, NASA continues to provide solid evidence of global warming.
NASA has provided me with pictorial evidence of Rainforest deforestation within: Jakarta, Peru, Africa, Brazil and even in Western Canada!
The motivation for such destruction continues to be (often illegally) for: lumber, for bio-fuels, and for Cattle ranching. Today, the perceived future profits for Palm Oil and for Bio-Fuels are prime motivators for environmental destruction. Small crop farming also contributes but that may be changing as farmers learn to protect the Rain-Forest.
With NASA imaging, there is proof that large city heat traps are helping global warming, and with (infrared images)there is proof that several hundred million gas burning vehicles (including ship and airplanes) presently create a hugh quantity of pollution tracks across both Oceans and Sky.
With oil, gas, Coal and Bio-Fuel heated buildings around the world creating C02 emissions, and with Methane release from all animal species...giant Ozone holes have been created and continue to exist above the North and South Poles. Ozone holes allow the Sun to radiate the Ice Caps and to accelerate the Ice melt, which releases more Methane into the atmosphere, which continues to thin out the Ozone. A vicious circle created by human need and also, unhappily, by human greed!
I have been asked to write to the Prime Minister of Japan to ask him to stop the murderous assault on endangered Whales. Every year, thousands of Whales are killed in the Antarctic with GreenPeace volunteers placing themselves between the Whales and the grenade tipped harpoons, and peope like myself, (I did not forget this is my "Bio," putting my old neck on the line attempting to change the situation by writing thousands if not millions of words!
Are words dangerous?
Over three hundred journalists were killed within the last ten years. You tell me if words are dangerous!
As I write these words, the desperate and starving in Darfur are waiting for rescue. I motivated a few kind hearted California Actors to visit the region and to report back. They did! They then created the Darfur coalition and they continue to fight to save the innocent victims trapped in tents in the desert of the Sudan. Darfuri's were attacked and moved from their homes because somebody believes there is Oil under the Sudan desert.
As I write this, a few sick and desperate people in Iraq are wrapping bombs around themselves in order to die in the name of God, and the list of humanitarian disasters continues. I also contribute information to the Reuter's news service. It is time for a change. Please help make it happen!