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The mountains of Appalachia are literally under attack! Help Keep The EPA STRONG!

Joseph Raglione
May 28, 2010
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, we are shifting away from Coal and Oil but the change is slow and the recalcitrants and the fear mongers are many. The fact is, if we don't change away from our narcisstic and polluting habits, the changing weather patterns will change us once and for all! You can have the richest corporations and the most dangerous industrial military complex on Earth, but Mother Nature protects this Life on Earth, including our Human lives and destroying her in the name of profit and the economy, is both stupid and suicidal! A lesson the Coal and Oil industry executives, their government protectors and their millions of greedy investors, have yet to learn...>

Dear Joseph,

Don't let this dirty coal mine move forward in Appalachia!

Contact the EPA today--the

comment deadline is June 1st.

Tragically, coal mining companies have buried close to 2,000 miles of Appalachian streams beneath piles of toxic waste and debris caused by mountaintop removal coal mining.

The mountains of Appalachia are literally under attack from this devastating process.

Now we need to support the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in their efforts to veto one of the largest proposed mountaintop removal mines ever authorized in Appalachia, the Spruce No. 1 mine.


Scientific consensus has proven that mountaintop removal mining harms streams, rivers and drinking water supplies. It is ravaging ecosystems, wreaking havoc on wildlife, sickening people, and devastating Appalachian communities.

The proposed expansion of the Spruce No. 1 mine in West Virginia would bury more than seven miles of headwater streams, directly impact 2,278 acres of forestland, and degrade water quality in nearby streams.

The EPA is taking a critical step in protecting Appalachian communities that have long suffered from the effects of mountaintop removal by invoking its rarely-used Clean Water Act authority to close down the Spruce mine.

We must not let this dirty coal mine move forward in Appalachia. Can you contact the EPA today?

Sincerely,

Ashley Judd

Sierra Club Member

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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!

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