OVEC Action Alerts Archive - 2009

OVEC Action Alerts for 2009 are archived below
Current OVEC Action Alerts

December 28, 2009  Online Action for the Mountains: Please Comment By Dec. 30 -- Make a New Year's Resolution for the Mountains -- One More Time With the End-of-Year Reminder

December 16, 2009  Please Comment by Tomorrow with Online Form - Stop Coal-to-Liquids Plant

December 11, 2009  WOC On(line)  -- Gifts with Meaning, in Time for the Holidays -- Easy Web Action: E-mail OSM on the Buffer Zone -- Public Hearing on Proposed Mingo Co. CTL Plant Dec. 17, Comments Due by Dec. 18 -- Meanwhile, at the CTL Plant in South Africa... -- Thanks for Taking Action Dec. 7 -- An End-of-Year Reminder

December 7, 2009  Reminder: Action Today At DEP HQ in Charleston, WV -- Anywhere, Today: Solidarity Action

November 25, 2009  CALL TO ACTION: Save Coal River Mountain Rally and Protest Dec. 7 -- Give Thanks! Legal Victory: Decision Could Send Dozens of Pending Permits Back for Additional Public Comment -- Rally on the Climate Change Bill Dec. 1 in Charleston  -- Thank UU for The Support -- Attend River Arts Show and Sale

November 5, 2009  For Coal River Mountain: Please Contact the Obama Administration Today -- Coal Country: See the Movie in Charleston this Weekend; Attend a House Party; Still Time to Host a House Party; Watch on Planet Green

October 28, 2009  Urgent: Fax or Call Today for Coal River Mountain -- Free: Your Own Sneak Peek DVD of Coal Country -- WOC On(line) -- Another Chance to See Mountain Top Removal on WV PBS

October 22, 2009  Correction on Oct. 24 Event

October 20, 2009  Today, Oct. 20: National Call-In Day for the Mountains -- Please, Please Comment by Oct. 26 -- Oct. 24: 350.org International Day of Action; Clean Energy Rally in Charleston, WV -- Oct. 25: Rally to Celebrate Appalachia’s Sustainable Future in Huntington, WV

October 5, 2009  Take Action: CLEAN Up the Climate Bill -- Reminder: Talk to EPA -- Help Steer Us Away from the PATH of Destruction -- Oct. 8: Kick Off Event for Senior Walk to End Mountaintop Removal -- CBS News: 60 Minutes on Coal Ash  -- Reminder: Important Mountaintop Removal Hearings Oct. 13 and 15 -- More Events: Renewable Energy Workshop, PowerShift, Solar Decathlon....

September 29, 2009  No Matter Where You Live, Take Action! Comment to the EPA on its List of 79 MTR Permits -- Stop the PATH of Destruction: Power Line Hearings -- Hearings on Valley Fill Permits -- More Events

September 10, 2009  No Matter Where You Live: Take Action for Coalfield Communities  - Stop OSM Nominee -- Easy Web Action: Inspire America to End Mountaintop Removal -- Take a Bigger Step--Well, Several Thousands Steps: Senior Citizens' Walk Oct. 5 -- Get On The Bus: Rally For Clean Energy At The G20 In Pittsburgh -- Books: Volunteers Still Needed -- Don't Like Books? How About Movies? Volunteers Needed -- Hightower Book Signing; Rally for the Mountains Date Change; More Events

September 3, 2009 Volunteers Needed -- Tree Sitter Or No, You Can Help -- Get Legislative For the Mountains -- Easy Web Action: Tell Verizon What For -- Easy Web Action: E-Mail the EPA and the CEQ -- Action That Tales A Little More Effort: Shower Congress with Coal In America -- Labor Day Weekend Festival On Kayford Mountain; More Events

August 18, 2009 WOC On(line) -- Plundering Appalachia -- This Sunday in Charleston: Stop MTR CD Release Party / Free Concert -- Films Screening Across the Country -- FEMA: Three Strikes and You Are Out?

August 4, 2009  Take Action: We Need an Ethical Director for Federal Office of Surface Mining (RE) -- Take Action:  ACES: Fix It or Ditch It -- OVEC Members in International News -- Upcoming Events -- Why Joseph Pizarchik Should Not Be Nominated to Head OSMRE

July 9, 2009  Location and Time Change for July 11 Premier of  Coal Country -- News on Why the Location has Changed

June 22, 2009  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 18, 2009  Now: Activists Scaled 20-Storey Tall Dragline to Call Attention to Nation’s Worst form of Coal Mining -- Today: You Don't Have to Scale a Dragline to Take Action: We Need an Ethical Director for the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement -- June 23: Actress Darryl Hannah to Join Us at Marsh Fork School and Goals Coal

June 16, 2009 June 17: SSP Needs You at  DEP's Slurry Injection Presentation -- June 19, 20: Mountain Aid -- June 23: Hansen, Heckler, Fox and Co. on Coal River Valley -- Get CLEAN! -- TENTATIVE June 25: Senate Hearing on Mountaintop Removal

June 4, 2009  June 13: Energy Independence Day Cookout in Mingo County -- Mountain Aid in the News; Come Out June 19-20 -- Sludge Safety Project Needs You in Mid-June -- Got Sludge Contamination? Call EPA! -- Want to End Mountaintop Removal? Jim Hightower Says Call Obama's CEQ Today -- Do More Than Call - Lobby -- Save the Date: June 23 -- Remember, Eat for OVEC -- Reminders: Hearing Tuesday, More

May 27, 2009  First Protests and Arrests of Summer  -- June 13: Cook-Out to Change the World ~ Energy Independence Day -- Volunteers Needed For Mountain Aid Concert -- More Ways to Participate - Upcoming Events

May 14, 2009 Update for Mingo County Flood Assistance Volunteers -- Apply for OVEC Organizer Position Until May 22 -- May 23: Picket at Pettus! -- Ansted Citizens and Gauley Mountain Need You June 9 (and Maybe June 10, Too) -- Today: Last Day to Register for Mountain Justice Summer Camp -- Mountain Aid Concert Tickets on Sale Now -- A Message from the Producers of "On Coal River" -- July 11: Save the Date! West Virginia premier of "Coal Country" -- More Events, Near and Far -- Recommended Reading

May 11, 2009  Call for Volunteers to Help Flooded OVEC Members in Mingo County

April 19, 2008  Maria Gunnoe Wins 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize

April 10, 2009  OVEC is Hiring  -- Noon, April 17: Come To Charleston for Blair Mountain -- Please Contact OSMRE -- PBS, Appalachia, Coal and MTR -- Volunteers Needed! -- Upcoming Events, Near and Far -- Center for Whole Communities

April 2, 2009  For the Mountains: Please E-Mail the EPA

March 17, 2009 Today: National Call-in Day to Help End Mountaintop Removal -- In West Virginia: Call For Clean Elections -- Thursday: Sludge Safety Project Press Conference in Charleston -- Sunday: Two Authors Sign Their Books at Taylor Books

March 9, 2009  March 11: E-Day! and Stop PATH Rally -- March 12: Sludge Safety Project Lobby Day -- Support OVEC's Cemetery Legislation  -- March 22: Two Authors Sign Their Books at Taylor Books -- March 28: Clean Elections Meeting in Huntington -- March 27 - 29: Headwaters Gathering - Southern Appalachia at the Crossroads -- April 6 - 17: Near Your Home, Meet and Educate Your Congressperson -- April 26: Last Child in the Woods Author Speaks in Charleston

February 19, 2009  Judge Chambers' Ruling Overturned; Contact the Obama Administration -- Today: Last Day to Apply for Scholarships for Lobby Week In Washington, D.C. -- Tuesday: Sludge Safety Project Lobby Day -- E-Council and CAG: Stay Current on the Happenings at the WV Legislature -- Join OVEC in Working to Protect Cemeteries -- Join CLEAN National Call to Action for a New Energy Policy -- Eat to Support OVEC's Work

February 9, 2009  8:30 a.m. Tomorrow, Feb. 10: Hearing on Coal River Mountain  -- Toxic Sludge in Your Water Bad For You? DEP Not Sure... -- Noon Tomorrow, Feb. 10: Come Hear DEP Talk about That Sludge -- Then, At 2 Tomorrow, Hop Over to Clean Elections Presentation -- Feb. 12: DEP informal conference on renewal of MTR permit on Gauley Mountain -- 100 Days of Action Continues (Note Above and Below) -- Feb. 17: I Love Mountains Day at the Kentucky State Capitol -- Feb. 27 to March 2: Powershift 2009; March 2 Mass Civil Dis2009\02_09.htmobedience at Coal-Fired Power Plant in D.C. -- March 14 to 18: 4th Annual End Mountaintop Removal Week in Washington, D.C. -- March 7 to 15: Mountain Justice Spring Break 2009 -- Hard to Keep Up with the News? Try Coal Tattoo

February 3, 2009 Biofuels more harmful Support People on Site Today: Call the Governor to Support Coal River Windto humans than petrol and diesel, warn scientists 2/2

January 28, 3009  Jan. 31: Sludge Safety Project Event -- Jan. 31: Nowheres Else But Here: Paul Corbit Brown Photo Exhibit -- Feb. 5: The Global Warming Solutions Gallery At Marshall University -- Sign Up Online for End Mountaintop Removal Lobby Week In Washington DC -- Sign Up Online for Powershift 2009 -- Mar. 2: Capitol Climate Action - Mass Civil Disobedience -- Hey, What Happened on Jan. 21? -- Most of the Above Part of 100 Days of Action; Please Take Part

January 17, 2009  Save Gauley Mountain: Easy Web Actions -- Mountaintop Removal on National Public Radio -- Deadline For Clean Elections Video Contest Extended to February 28 -- Reminder to Pledge to Make the Call January 21 -- Sludge Safety Project members in the News; Hope to See You January 31

January 9, 2009  January 21: 100 Actions in 100 Days Begins with National Call-In Day -- Tell Me Again Why I Need to Call for Clean Energy -- 100 Day Action: January 31: SSP Kickoff at the WV State Capitol -- 100 Day Action: February 5: National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions -- February 7: Deadline to Enter West Virginia Clean Elections Video Contest -- This Monday, Jan. 12: Support Logan County Folks at DEP Headquarters -- February 11- April 11: 2009 WV Legislative Session and OVEC Projects -- 100 Day Actions: More Actions to Check Out