Below:

• June 25: OVEC Community Organizer Maria Gunnoe to Testify at Senate Hearing

• Reminder for Tomorrow's Event

• July 4 Weekend: Mountain Keepers Festival on Kayford Mountain

• July 11: Worldwide Premier of Coal Country at the LaBelle Theatre
• Coal's Costs Outweigh Benefits, WVU Study Finds

• Video from Last Week's Action

 June 25: OVEC Community Organizer Maria Gunnoe to Testify at Senate Hearing
OVEC community organizer Maria Gunnoe will be one of the people testifying at the June 25 hearing on mountaintop removal practices called by U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), the Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Water and Wildlife Subcommittee. The hearing entitled, "The Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining on Water Quality in Appalachia," is at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 25 in Room 406 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. If you can make it, arrive early in order to secure a seat.

If you can't make it, please consider donating to OVEC to help cover the costs of sending a couple of people to DC to support Maria. 

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 Reminder for Tomorrow's Event
We hope you can come out for tomorrow's event in the Coal River Valley with climate scientist James Hansen, actress Darryl  Hanna and many more. Details here.

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 July 4 Weekend: Mountain Keepers Festival on Kayford Mountain
Music, food and friends – It’s the Mountain Keepers Festival on Kayford Mountain. Contact Larry Gibson at 304-542-1134 or reply to this e-mail for more information.

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 July 11: Worldwide Premier of Coal Country at the LaBelle Theatre
Please come out at 7 p.m. on July 11 to celebrate the completion of Mari-Lyn Evans’s and Phyllis Geller’s film Coal Country. Attend the world-wide premier at the LaBelle Theatre / South Charleston Museum, 311 D Street, South Charleston. OVEC board member Chuck Nelson, Coal River Mountain Watch's Judy Bonds, former Congressman Ken Hechler, country music star Kathy Mattea and many coalfield residents you may know are featured in this film.

Mattea and other musicians whose music is featured in the movie are scheduled to be at the premier. We hope you can come out to make this a really fun celebration.

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 Coal's Costs Outweigh Benefits, WVU Study Finds
Check out this article in the Sunday Gazette Mail. You can e-chat with one of the researchers involved in the study at 2 p.m. today. Click here for info and to join the live chat.

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 Video from Last Week's Action
Stop mountaintop removal activists scaled a dragline last week to attempt to unfurl a "Stop Mountaintop Removal" banner. Go to this website and click on "video" to see footage shot during that action.

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