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Bill Moyers on MTR and the Clean Water Act Friday (TOMORROW!) Night
Easy Web Action on Clean Water Act / Valley Fills
Help Put MTR in a Category of Its Own
FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 AT 9 P.M. ON PBS TV: “NOW WITH BILL MOYERS” DIGS INTO THE COAL MINING CONTROVERSY (check local listings) >From the PBS Press Release: The daring rescue of nine coal miners in Pennsylvania this week has put the mining industry in the media spotlight. But mining looks a lot less heroic in nearby West Virginia, where industry practices are at the center of an environmental and political firestorm that reaches all the way to the White House. “The Cost of Coal,” a special report on NOW With Bill Moyers, airing Friday, August 2 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings), uncovers how mountaintop removal coal mining – which has had a devastating impact in West Virginia – may emerge as a threat to the nation’s water supply.
THANK DAN—HE’S THE MAN Please, please give Dan Radmacher, the Charleston Gazette’s editorial page editor, a call of support! Please tell him how much you appreciate all his great work, how mountaintop removal and other coal issues wouldn’t get nearly the attention they deserve without all of Dan’s (and Ken Ward’s) great work. Folks, it takes guts to always stick your neck out in so public a fashion. Dan consistently speaks the truth to the coal industry’s political power, and thanks to him, and informed activists like you, that power is diminishing! Still an animal like COAL backed into a corner fights harder than ever. It must be hot, hot, hot inside Dan’s shoes. So, please call him with a “You rock! What you do is so important to us in our struggle for justice, so important for West Virginia’s future. Thank you!” Please let him know many people appreciate his efforts! Call him on his direct line 304-348-5150 or e-mail danrad@wvgazette.com.
SUSTAINABLE FAIR Mark your calendar for the 3rd Annual West Virginia Sustainable Fair, Saturday, August 3, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. (gates open at 8:00 a.m.) at La Paix Herb Farm, 3052 Crooked Run Road, Alum Bridge, WV., 15 miles west of Weston, WV on Route 33 (follow the signs). $10 per person; $15 per couple or family; pay at the gate. Camping available on a first come, first serve basis. Contact Myra Bonhage-Hale at lapaix@iolinc.net or Denise Poole at deniseap@earthlink.net for more info. Visit www.sustainabledevelopmentforwv.com for the schedule of all the great activities.
EASY WEB ACTION ON CLEAN WATER ACT / VALLEY FILLS Click here to send a note to your Representative asking her or him to support HR 4683, the Shays-Pallone Act, which would block the Bush administration’s attempt to change Clean Water Act regulations by adding a statutory definition of fill material to the Act. The definition would expressly forbid the Corps of Engineers from permitting the discharge of waste materials as "fill" to bury and destroy the nation's waters.
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD--OFTEN Hey did ya notice what people power can do? Stop a bunch of overweight coal trucks for one. Legislators responded to public opinion. Let’s keep our opinions public—keep our opposition to overweight coal trucks and mountaintop removal in the public dialogue. An easy way to do this is to visit the on-line bulletin boards and “vent lines” of local newspapers. And then there are always the reliable letter-to-the editor.
The Charleston Gazette Reader’s Voice Line: 304-357-4551
Click Here for MTR forum
Letters to the Editor: letters@wvgazette.com
The Charleston Daily Mail: Vent Line: 304- 357-4330 or ventline@dailymail.com (less than 50 words) Letters to the Editor: editor@dailymail.com
The Huntington Herald Dispatch
Forum
Letters to the
Editor
The Logan Banner Letters to the Editor
By the way today (Thursday Aug. 1) the Logan Banner has a poll on overweight coal trucks.
The Beckley register Herald At the bottom of any story, you can submit your opinion
You can find contact info for other state papers by clicking here.
MTR IN A CATEGORY ALL ITS OWN—WITH YOUR HELP Appearing in “Film Nuts” column by Steve Fesenmaier in the August issue of Graffiti: Making Mountaintop Removal Official Super librarian Sandy Berman has written the Library of Congress, requesting that the subject heading “mountaintop removal” be made official. If you search WV’s libraries, or any libraries, you will not find any books, videos, or anything listed. You may find something under other headings like “strip mining.” Berman used Gates’ film “All Shaken Up” and portions of Jedediah Purdy’s book, “For Common Things”, as justification…
Please write the Library of Congress saying you support creating the new subject Heading of “mountaintop removal” Tom Yee, Cataloging Policy and Support Office, Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540
(And OVEC will work to make sure that subject heading moves to the “beyond stupid, archaic practices” subject heading ASAP!)
SAMPLE LETTER
Tom Yee Cataloging Policy and Support Office Library of Congress Washington, DC 20540
Dear Mr. Yee:
A major environmental topic, already the theme of films, articles, book chapters, and government reports, has not yet been established as an LC subject heading, meaning that access to the burgeoning material on that topic is severely hampered in library catalogs. Accordingly, I suggest the immediate creation and assignment of: Mountaintop removal mining.
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