Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Today

Regular readers know that I've been involved in iLoveMountains.org, a project of Appalachian Voices, for almost two years now.

The website has won numerous accolades for its effective use of Google Earth and Google Maps in the field of advocacy.

More to the point, however, is that we've recruited nearly 30,000 people who are committed to stopping mountaintop removal coal mining.

This week, 125 of those people are in Washington, DC, lobbying their representatives to pass the Clean Water Protection Act, which would sharply curtail the ability of coal companies to fill valleys and streams with the tremendous waste that results from mountaintop removal coal mining.

Here's a video of our volunteers in Washington, who came from all over the country to convince Congress that now is the time to act to stop mountaintop removal coal mining:

Please consider taking a moment today to call your representative and ask them to support the Clean Water Protection Act. Click here to call your representative or here to email them.

And if you haven't yet joined iLoveMountains.org, click here.