Climate Action » coal protest http://blog.usclimatenetwork.org US Climate Action Network's Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:12:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hundreds Protest Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining http://blog.usclimatenetwork.org/energy-rebellion/hundreds-protest-mountaintop-removal-coal-mining/ http://blog.usclimatenetwork.org/energy-rebellion/hundreds-protest-mountaintop-removal-coal-mining/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:50:34 +0000 Suzanne Bopp http://blog.usclimatenetwork.org/?p=470
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    • ]]>     Yesterday about 300 environmental activists gathered outside the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection headquarters, calling for an end to blasting on Coal River Mountain. 04_tn

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed the rally, which was organized by Coal River Mountain Watch, and said that mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia is a crime, and that if the American people could see it, there would be a revolution.

    Kennedy is scheduled to return to the state on January 21 to debate Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship at the University of Charleston.

    - Suzanne Bopp

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    ]]>     http://blog.usclimatenetwork.org/energy-rebellion/hundreds-protest-mountaintop-removal-coal-mining/feed/ 1     Protesters Tell Penn State to Stop Using Coal http://blog.usclimatenetwork.org/energy-rebellion/protesters-tell-penn-state-to-stop-using-coal/ http://blog.usclimatenetwork.org/energy-rebellion/protesters-tell-penn-state-to-stop-using-coal/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:24:18 +0000 Suzanne Bopp http://blog.usclimatenetwork.org/?p=254
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    • ]]>     Last week on the Penn State campus, students joined faculty and community members at a rally in front of the university’s coal plant. They called on the university to phase out the plant – which now provides 80% of the energy on campus – and move toward clean energy. Mizzou-coalplant

    Penn State’s President Graham Spanier’s agreed to meet student leaders this semester to discuss the topic. Today a panel discussion on Penn State’s energy future will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Berg Auditorium of the Life Sciences Building.

    Penn State is a member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Sustainability Partnership Program, which has the school committed to reducing its global warming pollution 17% by 2012.

    The protest was a part of a nationwide Campuses Beyond Coal campaign, a joint effort between the Sierra Student Coalition and the Sierra Club to move universities to 100% clean energy solutions.

    – Suzanne Bopp

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