Stop Mountain-Top Removal, or plow "The McCain Belt" into the ground?

[Ian David]

The McCain Belt
Interesting map available on the NYT home page shows the places where McCain did better than Bush did in 2004:



You can see why John McCain’s principled stand against higher taxes on the wealthy would have a special resonance in this region. Liberals who thought race had something to do with those appeals should be ashamed of themselves.

More:
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/11/the_mccain_belt.php

Or:

National Call-In Day to Stop Mountaintop Removal

(hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/RayBeckerman/status/10239102949 )

I’ve been familiar with mountaintop removal (the practice of blasting the tops off mountains and dumping them in streams to get at coal seams maybe a foot thick) for years now. But this week it became personal.

I’m here at the 5th Annual End Mountaintop Removal Week in Washington, joining residents from the coalfields of Appalachia in meetings with our Congressmen, gathering support for the Clean Water Protection Act (HR 1310) and the Appalachia Restoration Act (S 696). This may be the 5th year, but the momentum is tangible. We have 166 co-sponsors for the CWPA, bi-partisan support in both Houses and committee chairmen who are receptive to moving this forward. To build even more momentum, today is a National Call-In Day to urge your Congresspeople to support these bills. Their offices are hearing from us in person and need to hear from even more constituents.

Please, take the two minutes to call your Rep. Below are some of the most powerful points I’ve heard from local residents to communicate with members of Congress.

More:
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2010/03/09/national-call-in-day-to-stop-mountaintop-removal/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsgettinghotinhere%2Ffb+%28It%27s+Getting+Hot+In+Here%29&utm_content=Twitter


Where Mountain Top Removal takes place
http://www.appvoices.org/index.php?/mtr/environmental_impacts/