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	<description>END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA!</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Army Corps Issues EPA Backed Pine Creek Permit</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/779</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signaled its approval of Arch Coal subsidiary Coal-Mac’s Pine Creek surface mine in Logan County, WV.  Yesterday, the agency announced that the US Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) had issued its final Clean Water Act permit for the mountaintop removal mine.
In other words&#8230;
They are still blowing up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News from the Appalachian Voices Concert Tour!</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/778</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Colette Henderson 
Five days ago, we kicked off the Dear Companion tour in Lexington, KY in full force.  We packed the house and many stopped by the iLoveMountains table to pick up materials and ask questions.  The amazing part of doing this work in areas like Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Voice is Needed to Protect Our Streams</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/775</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following email was sent to the 42,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.
As a parting gift to Big Coal, in late 2008 the Bush administration gutted the Stream Buffer Zone rule, which protected our nation&#8217;s streams and waterways from the worst coal industry abuses.
The old rule was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA Delays Decision on Spruce Mine</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/776</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to delay a decision on its proposed veto of Arch Coal’s Spruce No. 1 mine until September 24, 2010.  The decision to delay came after the agency received over 4,000 public comments.
The Spruce mine permit, if granted, would allow over seven miles of Appalachian headwater streams to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reverend Billy Comes to WV!</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/774</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/774#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reverend Billy is a renowned performance artist and activist who travels the world to fight against consumerism and the detriments of disposable goods.  Recently, his 35 person gospel choir has turned to the issue of mountaintop removal coal mining, writing many original songs about the dangers of the environmentally harmful mining practice.

Reverend Billy has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Air Worth the Costs (But Especially the Benefits!)</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/773</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the message the Obama administration sent last week when it proposed a new rule that would curtail pollution from coal-fired power plants in the eastern United States.   According to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the rule should improve air quality as far south as Texas and Florida and as far north as Minnesota [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Hell with Almost Heaven?</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/772</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/772#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, activists with the Rainforest Action Network showed up at the headquarters of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, chained themselves to one another and began blasting a special edit of “Take me Home, Country Roads.”  Their take on John Denver’s classic included intermittent sounds of the earth- and nerve-shattering explosives used during mountaintop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Coal the Whole Thing Off: Dirty Industry Receives Billions in Taxpayer Support</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/771</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/771#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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How was your weekend, America?  Any hot dates?  You&#8217;re still involved with Big Coal?!  Unbelievable.  (Sigh) You do love when that industry talks clean to you, don&#8217;t you?  All those sweet little lies&#8230;




Always the same story.  You throw on your finest duds, but no longer expect anything new.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the Disaster that is Mountaintop Removal</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/770</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following email was sent to the 42,000+ supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.

A citizen speaks to their Senator about
the Appalachia Restoration Act (S 696)


     


As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and as the Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OSMRE Holds Open Houses on Stream Protection Rule</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/769</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making good on a promise made back in April, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) will begin holding a series of open houses to accept public comments on Stream Protection Rule revisions currently in development by the agency.
The proposed revisions are intended to change stream protection in regards to surface mining, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voices from Appalachia: A Human Rights Perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/768</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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An Alliance for Appalachia partner organization, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and ENGAGE ( Educational Network for Global and Grassroots Exchange) have joined together to create a new report with stories concerning human rights violations associated with the process of mountaintop removal in Floyd County,Ky.  
According to  The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA APPROVES Permit For Mountaintop Removal at Pine Creek</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/767</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last April, the EPA announced new guidance standards for new and pending surface mine permits in Appalachia.  EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson stated &#8220;Coal communities should not have to sacrifice their environment or their health or their economic future to mountaintop mining. They deserve the full protection of our clean water laws.&#8221;  The Administrator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FARCES of Coal: Apple Juice Creeks and Gatorade Streams</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/766</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember FACES of Coal? The less than bona fide astroturfing organization whose members keep turning up on iStockphoto.com?
 Well, the antics continue as they&#8217;re none too pleased with the EPA these days.  It seems the EPA has got it in for Apple Juice creeks and Gatorade streams.  Typical right?!  Far as we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senator Robert C. Byrd has Passed Away</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/765</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/765#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert C. Byrd &#8220;may come closer to the kind of senator the Founding Fathers had in mind than any other.&#8221; &#8212; Almanac of American Politics
Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) passed away early this morning at the age of 92. Senator Byrd is the longest serving member of the United States Congress in American history, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Reuters Video focuses on effects of Mountaintop Removal in Kentucky</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/763</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mikulski Makes 12!</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/762</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve heard of the dirty dozen?  Well, thanks to Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, we now have the Clean Water Dozen!  That&#8217;s 12 Senators supporting the Appalachia Restoration Act, and in so doing, standing up for clean water and against mountaintop removal coal mining.

Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) is a 4th term Democrat from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two New Blockbuster Reports Unveil True Costs of Coal</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/761</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mounting evidence shows mountaintop removal is detrimental to the health of local communities, to the land it flattens, and to the water it buries and pollutes, but the industry loves to tout that coal is good for local economies.
But is that really the case?
Two blockbuster reports released today by Downstream Strategies reveal that every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Win for Appalachia: Streamlined “NWP 21” Officially Suspended!</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/759</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/759#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Army Corps of Engineers has decided to suspend the &#8220;streamlined&#8221; Nationwide Permit 21 in Appalachia.
According to statements made by Meg Gaffney-Smith, Chief of the Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Program:
&#8220;Under the surface coal mining MOU, we identified concerns with surface coal mines specifically related to mountaintop removal&#8230;within those states.&#8221;
&#8220;Over the past several years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duke Energy Considers Non-Mountaintop Removal Options</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/757</link>
		<comments>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/757#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Duke Energy has recently made comments hinting that they would like to see an end to mountaintop removal coal mining, but some are skeptical of their commitment.
Duke has asked its suppliers to quote the price for coal not mined with the controversial mountaintop removal technique, a first for the company.  Senior vice president Paul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Blast Our Homes</title>
		<link>http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/756</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Don’t Blast Our Homes!”  That’s what Wise County residents told the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy when more than 20 community members gathered outside the DMME’s office in Big Stone Gap to rally in opposition to A&#038;G Coal&#8217;s proposed Ison Rock Ridge surface mine. “Ison Rock Ridge is families. Keep it standing!” [...]]]></description>
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