Action Alert: Please Sign Petition for Obama to end Mountain Top Removal Mining

[DogPoundPup]

# Reverse the Bush Mine Waste Giveaways: In the 11th hour, the Bush administration weakened the Stream Buffer Zone, allowing companies to dump mine waste into streams and rivers, worsening an earlier Bush ruling that has accelerated the pace of mountaintop removal coal mining.

# Enforce the Law: The coal industry has routinely ignored the Clean Water Act and the Stream Buffer Zone Rule. President Obama should demand that these and other rules be enforced, and hold the EPA, the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement, and the Army Corps of Engineers accountable.

# Urge Congress to Pass the Clean Water Protection Act: The Clean Water Protection Act is necessary to both permanently protect clean drinking water for many of our nation’s cities and to protect Appalachian coalfield residents who face frequent catastrophic flooding and pollution as a result of mountaintop removal.

# Prioritize Appalachia in America's Clean Energy Future: Some mountaintops in Appalachia have huge wind power potential and would be more beneficial in that regard than as flattened landscape. President Obama should make Environmental Impact Assessments and economic analyses mandatory as part of his New Energy for America Plan. With finite and declining coal reserves and jobs, Obama needs to ensure Appalachia receives attention and support in the Administration's new energy plan that includes $150 billion dollars invested in green, union jobs.

http://www.ilovemountains.org/obama/

[Radical Activist]

1. Done

[DogPoundPup]

3. Thank You!!! n/t

[Wilms]

2. Done and R. Thanks.

[DogPoundPup]

4. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[slipslidingaway]

5. Done K&R thanks n/t

[amborin]

6. done, and K&R

[Triana]

7. DONE. K & R. n/t

[amborin]

8. ps: this also involves total deforestation in the affected areas, 1200 square miles so far

[amborin]

11. K & R

[Lochloosa]

9. For Sapphire Blue. Done

[pleah]

10. K&R Done!

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[babydollhead]

12. done

[diane in sf]

13. done

[amborin]

14. i hope people are signing the petition, even if they're not posting anything

[OhioBlue]

15. done. more at link:

http://www.wvgazettemail.com/News/200812010693

it discusses Bush's plans to revoke rules to limit the burial of streams during MTR.