WEDNESDAY | JUNE 19, 2013
Groups File Clean Water Concerns With Kentucky Court
Environmental and community groups concerned about water quality in Kentucky rivers are asking a court to throw out an order between the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet and Frasure Creek Mining, saying they have a due process right to be part of the proceedings. Appalachian Voices of North Carolina, Waterkeeper Alliance of New York, [...] 
I live on the banks of Looney Creek in Benham, Ky., deep in the hills of Harlan County. I’m proud to say I’m a former U.S. Marine. I spent my 19th birthday in Vietnam. I came home from the war and went into the coal mines and shortly after was crushed in a rock [...]
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The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) ruled last week that millions of dollars from the now-closed Mohave Generating Station in Nevada can be used for a fund to support renewable energy projects for the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation. The Just Transition Coalition, comprised of Hopi, Navajo and environmental groups, praised the Feb. 13 [...]
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The implosion of San Diego’s South Bay Power Plant on Feb. 2 was cause for great celebration. South Bay became a different place when the power plant was built and will be a different and better place when it’s removed. Its removal is a victory for community health, the environment, and quality economic development. The [...]
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More parks and open space for families and children, and fewer diesel trucks spewing fumes into neighborhoods, were some of the biggest victories for the Environmental Health Coalition last year. The coalition, works to protect public health threatened by toxic pollution in southern California. Last year, the Environmental Health Coalition in San Diego, successfully shut [...]
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Ever since the coal industry came to eastern Kentucky more than 100 years ago, residents have dealt with polluted water, coal-truck traffic, dust, mud, flooding, blasting damage to homes and a long list of other challenges. For more than 30 years, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, a grassroots organization born in eastern Kentucky, has worked to [...]
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RICHMOND, Calif. – Residents and community organizations are congratulating the Richmond (Calif.) City Council for taking the first step in holding the Chevron refinery accountable for the massive August 6 fire that spewed an enormous cloud of toxic black smoke over the Bay Area and sent more than 15,000 local residents to hospitals. Responding to [...]
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RICHMOND, Calif. – Standing on the dock next to her houseboat in affluent Sausalito, Calif., around dinnertime on Aug. 6, Lovise Mills watched a thick, black cloud of smoke pouring into the sky, partially hidden behind the hills that ring her picturesque community. Stunned, Mills took pictures and posted them on Facebook. “What the hell [...]
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