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• No Matter Where You Live: Help Save Gauley Mountain

• If You Can Come To Huntington:  Hearing Oct. 22 and 23

• Take the Heat, then Come CLEAN and Come Learn

• Still Need to Tell 'Em: Buzz Off Changing the Buffer Zone Rule

• Back to CLEAN...Why Join?

 No Matter Where You Live: Help Save Gauley Mountain
Gauley Mountain is the backbone of Fayette County, and stands in the heart of the New River Gorge tourist area. This mountain is pictured on our state quarter. It plays a key role in West Virginia's tourism and economy. Please take a moment to sign this online petition to end mountaintop removal.  If you want to do more, consider collecting signatures on the petition. Find the info you need here. 

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 If You Can Come To Huntington:  Hearing Oct. 22 and 23
This Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 22 and 23, we have another hearing in our ongoing lawsuit over the way the Army Corps of Engineers issues valley fill permits and how the coal industry "mitigates" for streams lost to valley fills.  The arguments on these days will be very important to the overall case, so please join us if you can. 

Please join us in thanking our scientific experts, who have worked so hard on behalf of the streams and mountains and the life dependent on them. Our huge thanks go to Margaret Palmer, Emily Bernhardt, Mark Brinson and Andy Miller.    

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 Take the Heat, then Come CLEAN and Come Learn
Tune in to PBS tomorrow, Oct. 21 at 9 p.m. EST for Frontline's Heat, a two-hour program on global warming.  Find out why we are standing at "the precipice of Hell" and why we have to be smarter to avoid a "colossal global wreck." After watching the program, you may have the prod you need to join CLEAN, if you haven't already. We hope you'll even want to recruit other individuals and groups to join the CLEAN Call to Action.

Learn more locally by attending a lecture sponsored by the University of Charleston. On Thursday, October 23 at 6:30 p.m. come out to hear Dr. Lonnie Thompson of the Ohio State University speak on "Global Climate Change: A Paleoclimate Perspective from the World's Highest Mountains." The lecture, in the University's Riggelman Hall Auditorium,  is free and open to the public. Dr. Thompson, a native of Gassaway, W.Va., was just named an International Heroes of the Envrioment by Time Magazine. 

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 Still Need to Tell 'Em: Buzz Off Changing the Buffer Zone Rule
Yup, it was another Friday afternoon bad-news-drop from the Bush administration:
US Moves Toward New Dumping Rules For Mining Waste
Mine dumping would be eased under new rules
And from our good friend Jeff Biggers, Speak Now Against Bush's Great Coal Giveaway

If you live in West Virginia, you may have seen the Alliance for Appalachia's ads (for instance, an ad was on page A3 of the Sunday Charleston Gazette Mail) on the need for you to take action by telling the Bush administration to buzz off changing the buffer zone rule.  Click here for an easy way to take action. 

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 Back to CLEAN...Why Join?
OVEC believes that global warming poses the gravest threat to humanity and the planet that supports us and all our relations. Therefore, we are working with the Civil Society Institute and other groups across the nation to advance energy policy that promotes safe, clean, renewable wind and solar and other clean energy initiatives. We can make our nation a leader on combating the impacts of global warming.  We believe that a strong citizens' voice is needed to advance these measures.  That is why we are collaborating with CSI and other groups on Citizens Leading Energy Action Now.
 
Right now, the thing we most need you to do is help us expand our network. Please take a moment to forward this text to at least five friends, associates or family members, and ask them to sign the CLEAN Call To Action today. Let them know a new energy policy is necessary and we can no longer wait for our business leaders and politicians to get there. It's up to us to act.
 
OVEC has had a hand in shaping this Call to Action and believes that the policies proposed in the Call are essential to reduce greenhouse gasses, to reduce global warming, and will help create a new clean, green energy economy for our nation. 
 
Since our government has been dragging its feet, it's time for citizens to lead NOW.  Individuals as well as organizations can sign on to this call. Our government officials need to hear from regular people that they should move forward quickly with this new energy policy that promotes clean, renewable energy to preserve the planet for the sake of our children and future generations.
 
The U.S., which accounts for 25% of all global warming gasses has a responsibility to be a leader on this issue.
 
Please join OVEC in this important effort.  And please, encourage your friends and family members to join the CLEAN Call to Action, too.

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