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Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Sit-ins-Funeral March Erupt at EPA/JP Morgan Chase Offices Across Nation: Coal River Mtn Emergency (PHOTOS)
huffingtonpost.com - 10/30/2009
Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Sit-ins-Funeral March Erupt at EPA/JP Morgan Chase Offices Across Nation: Coal River Mtn Emergency (PHOTOS)
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BREAKING NEWS: The Coalfield Uprising is spreading across the nation. As millions of pounds of explosions rip across their mountain communities, including the clean energy landmark of Coal River Mountain, scores of residents from the Appalachian coalfields have joined with supporters from across the country in a series of sit-ins, die-ins, protests, and a haunting "Day of the Dead" funeral procession and sit-in in the courtyard of the Washington, DC headquarters of the Environmental Protection ...
ga3.org - 10/27/2009
Take Action: Ask EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to Intervene at Coal River Mountain
— ga3.org — Mountaintop removal blasting has begun on Coal River Mountain. These operations are happening only a few hundred... feet away from the Brushy Fork impoundment dam, which holds over 8.2 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge above Pettus, WV. If the dam ... (more) Take Action: Ask EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to ...

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Jeff Biggers: EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Battle at Coal River Mountain Explodes; Green Jobs v. Big Coal Showdown
huffingtonpost.com - 10/26/2009
Jeff Biggers: EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Battle at Coal River Mountain Explodes; Green Jobs v. Big Coal ...
— huffingtonpost.com — The Battle at Coal River Mountain has officially begun. At the same time President Barack Obama invoked... the "legacy of daring men and women" in our nation's quest for renewable energy initiatives, and as millions of concerned citizens rallied ... (more) Jeff Biggers: EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Battle at Coal River ...

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understory.ran.org - 10/30/2009
DC Mountaintop Removal Protest Heats Up
— understory.ran.org — Across Country Coalition of Environmental Groups Call for EPA to Stop Recent Blasting on Coal River Mountain,... WV; Site of Proposed Wind Farm More than Fifty Stage Sit-In and Rally at EPA Headquarters in DC Hundreds participated today with ... (more) DC Mountaintop Removal Protest Heats Up

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BREAKING: Sit-ins-Funeral March Erupt at EPA/JP Morgan Chase Offices Across …
Ramsay Home — ... Offices Across ...Huffington Post (blog)Coal River Mountain has been recognized by the Obama administration's Council on Environmental Quality, and energy experts around the nation, ...Mountaintop removal mining protests going nationalThe Associated PressKentucky pays steep environmental priceBusiness LexingtonActivists gather for 'Coal Country' showingTriCities.comIt's Getting Hot In Here (blog) -Kentucky.com -Philadelphia Inquirerall 132 news articles Read the original article at, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/breaking-sit-ins-funeral_b_340135.html Follow more ...

Breaking: EPA Sit-In to Spark Urgent Action on MTR
WattHead - Energy News and Commentary — ... Live blog (See release below for more details:) 2:02 All activists still sitting inside. Outside protest marched under EPA archways chanting loudly and are still causin' a ruckus outside in solidarity. Activists aren't leaving until blasting on Coal River Mountain stops 1:57 more great photos and accounts from around the country from Jeff Biggers at HuffPo 1:07 first video looking into the protest in the main lobby (photographers not allowed inside...) 1:04 from Scott Parkin's twitter: "rally outside holdin strong ...

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