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Winds of Change
March 2004

Contents

The PEOPLE Speak Out About MTR Impact Statement

Rule Change May Alter Strip-Mine Fight

Close Encounters of the COAL Kind

Note to President Bush from the Appalachian Coalfields: Buzz Off the Buffer Zone!

Federal Official Worries About Valley Fill Stability

Bush and Coal Money - LOTS of It

Global Warming, Bush, Alternative Energy Jobs and - Men on Mars?

Clean Elections in WV: Time to Celebrate Some Victories!

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial - A Time to Honor His Legacy

"Carbon Sequestration" Just Pseudo-Science Doublespeak

MTR Flyover

Catholic Leaders Take Firsthand Look at MTR

Don’t Agonize! ORGANIZE!

BUFFALO CREEK: Two Stories

Groups kick off coal sludge impoundment safety campaign

Keep Up the Good Work to Bring Back Jack!

Getting the Vote Out in 2004 - Forums Scheduled

Taking the TRUTH About MTR on the Road "Up North" to New York

WV Environmental Council’s 15th Annual E-Day!

Quick, Someone - Hide the Enviros!

Thanks

Feds Urge Closer Look at Selenium

Miscellany

Web Extra Articles Below
(not in printed newsletter)

Valleys Damned

Your Donations Add Up To Big Help 

Dear Editor:

Love doesn't love us
Deem doesn't deem us fit
But just really where are the jobs?

Tidbits 


For viewing the PDF version

 

Bush and Coal Money - LOTS of It

In "Bush Campaign Ads Brought to You by Special Interests; Industries That Give to Bush Get Their Money’s Worth," Public Citizen, a DC watchdog group, reports:

"The mining industry has contributed at least $3.1 million to Bush campaign efforts in the 2000 and 2004 cycles.

"Mining executives have been appointed to top posts in the Interior Department ...

"... Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency has permitted mountaintop removal for coal mining and is trying to lift a Reagan-era regulation that banned mining within 100 feet of a stream and increased the amount of public land available for mining company waste dumping."

Isn't democracy a wonderful thing? See the clean elections story  for some hope.

 

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