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Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
  1. Signatures
    1,575 out of 2,500
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    1. The President of the United States (+ 2 others)
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      • The President of the United States
      • EPA Administrator (Lisa Jackson)
      • Commanding General of the US Army Corps Engineers (Lieutenant General Robert L. “Van” Van Antwerp)
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It’s time to permanently ban mountaintop removal coal mining in the United States.

Mountaintop removal is as bad as it sounds. Every week coal companies use more explosive power than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima to blow up entire mountains and extract coal.

The rubble and debris is then dumped into river valleys below polluting rivers, streams and public drinking water with lead, arsenic, mercury and other toxins. Already more than 1,000 miles of rivers and streams have been buried by toxic mountaintop removal debris.

A major new study has further concluded that the health and environmental impacts of mountaintop removal are irreversible and that the only way to stop the harm caused by this brutal practice is to ban mountaintop removal entirely.

The EPA and the Army Corp of Engineers have the power to stop issuing permits for mountaintop removal but they won’t act unless they hear from you.

Send a letter to both agencies today and tell them that you want to protect America’s mountains, wildlife, water, and communities from being ravaged and destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining. 

Photo: iLoveMountains.org

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Mountaintop removal coal mining must end now

Greetings,

I am writing to ask you to stop issuing permits for mountaintop removal coal mining immediately and to recognize the environmental, health, and community impacts of this brutal and destructive practice.

A new study in the journal Science concludes that the damage caused to surrounding environment, to the economy, and to the public’s health by mountaintop removal coal mining is irreversible and goes as far as to proclaim that the only sensible course of action is a permanent and immediate ban.

Coal companies have been destroying our mountains, polluting our water, and poisoning our communities for far too long.

Please, I urge you to follow the guidance of our best scientific research and the pleas of the residents across Appalachia who have suffered enough from the damage caused by mountaintop removal.

[Your name]

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