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Deadline For Clean Elections Video Contest Extended to February 28
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Sludge Safety Project members in the News; Hope to See You January 31
Save Gauley
Mountain: Easy Web Actions
On Gauley Mountain (Fayette County, W.Va.), near the town of
Ansted,
Hawks Nest
State Park and the
New River Gorge,
Powellton Coal Company is currently in violation of the terms and
conditions of its surface mining permit for polluting the headwaters
of Rich Creek. Now the company is trying to get its permit
renewed. Make sure this doesn't happen! Sign
this petition to the WV Department of Environmental
Protection today.
Read more about our efforts to save Gauley Mountain in the January '09 Smithsonian magazine. If you haven't already, please sign this petition to President-elect Obama and Governor Manchin.
While you are e-signing petitions, there's also this one: Tell President-elect Obama to Stop Mountaintop Removal.
Mountaintop
Removal on National Public Radio
This morning, Weekend Edition Saturday aired "Bush
Administration Leaves Appalachia Scarred." OVEC board member
Larry Gibson and
Appalachian Center for the Economy & the Environment
executive director Joe Lovett were interviewed for this story. EPA's
Christine Todd Whitman's comments epitomize the Bush
administration's dismissal of the human and environmental impacts of
mountaintop removal.
Deadline For
Clean Elections Video Contest Extended
The deadline for the West Virginia Citizens for Clean Elections
video contest has been extended to February 28. Everything you need
to know to enter is
here.
We'd love to have your help spreading the word about Clean Elections. We need folks to host meetings around the state, so please reply to this e-mail if you can help put something together. We can provide a speaker and materials - all we need is your assistance in setting up a location and inviting your legislators and local citizens. Meetings are currently being planned in Parkersburg (Jan. 26), Wheeling, Clarksburg/Bridgeport, and Braxton County. If you would like to help with or attend one of those area meetings, e-mail for details. And please mark your calendars - our next coalition meeting will be February 19 at 10:30 a.m. at the ACT Foundation in Charleston, W.Va.
Clean Elections in the news:
State group seeks lawmakers' support for public financing act
West Virginia Citizens for Clean Elections video contest seeks teen
submissions (Correction--as mentioned, the deadline for entries
is now February 28, not February 7.)
Reminder
to Pledge to Make the Call January 21
If you haven't already, please pledge to call the Whitehouse on
January 21. Click the graphic below for details.
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| Please take the pledge and make the call January 21. |
Sludge Safety
Project members in the News; Hope to See You January 31
Williamson Daily News: Rawl Residents Question Strange Sludge
Appalshop's
documentary
Sludge
available to watch free online through the end of January.
Sludge Safety Project's legislative kickoff event begins at 2 p.m. on Saturday, January 31 at the State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va.. For details about that event, and weekly updates on SSP's activities, click here.
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