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Labor Day Picnic – No Overweight Coal Trucks
Quick Action for Blackwater Canyon
Picnic With Labor On Labor Day, Remind Gov. Wise – Don’t Raise The Truck Weight Limit Join some great folks, eat good food and rally on the Overweight Coal Truck issue this Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 2). Come join the United Mine Workers of America at their annual Labor Day rally and picnic in Racine at John Slack Park. UMWA President Cecil Roberts will speak at 1 p.m. No doubt, he'll talk about overweight coal trucks. Governor Wise and Senator Rockefeller have indicated they'll be at the picnic. Let's remind the Governor: Enforce the current coal truck weight limits. Don't raise those limits!
Directions to John Slack Park: From Charleston, take the Marmet exit on 64/77 South. Follow 94 across the mountain, turn left at the stop sign onto Rt. 3 and the park is just down the road on the right. For more information call Julie or Linda at 304-346-5891.
Quick Action For Blackwater Canyon The Friends of Blackwater Canyon (304-345-7663) ask that you please e-sign a postcard that will be delivered to the Forest Service. The postcards read:
“I love Blackwater Canyon. Please do not grant Allegheny Wood Products a right-of-way to use Forest Service Trail 115. A logging road - or any other commercial use - would destroy the Canyon’s scenic, historic, recreational and ecological value and be a terrible degradation of our public land. I am requesting that you please do a full Environmental Impact Statement on all of these values before proceeding any further, and that you put me on the mailing list for this project.”
You can e-sign by sending your name and address to info@saveblackwater.org.
Please take a moment to send a similar message to our two U.S. Senators, whose e-mail addresses are: senator_byrd@byrd.senate.gov senator@rockefeller.senate.gov
Blackwater Canyon is one of the grandest symbols of West Virginia’s beauty, and a top tourist destination. How stupid would it be to destroy it?
Bush on Fire OK, it is not directly related to mountaintop removal, but it is about screwy and dangerous policies that fatten the wallets of a select few at everybody else’s LONG-TERM expense. It is also all about campaign finance reform. Don’t know what’s up? Check out all the news coverage of Bush’s “Healthy Forests” initiative in our General Environmental News Links. Look for the “!” icons on stories dated 8/21/2002 or soon after - check the archives if these stories are no longer listed on the current news links page.
An editorial in the New York Times reads: “George W. Bush's new "Healthy Forests" plan reads like a parody of his administration's standard operating procedure. You see, environmentalists cause forest fires, and those nice corporations will solve the problem if we get out of their way.
Am I being too harsh? No, actually it's even worse than it seems. "Healthy Forests" isn't just about scrapping environmental protection; it's also about expanding corporate welfare.” Read the whole thing at in the NY Times.
Take action at here or send your own letter to Bush at president@whitehouse.gov.
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