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Appalachia

Petrushka

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7. A.C.H.E. -- Appalachian Communities Health Emergency Act

Reply to theHandpuppet (Original post)

Sat Mar 22, 2014, 10:07 AM

Mar 2014

The Appalachian Communities Health Emergency Act is the first law ever proposed that would end the human rights/human health disaster that is Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia.

http://www.citizenscoalcouncil.org/?page_id=2590

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Mountaintop Removal [View all] theHandpuppet Mar 2014 OP

Agencies Dodge Responsibility for Human Cost of Mountaintop-Removal Coal Mining theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #1

Mountaintop Mining and Environmental Justice theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #2

Here's one that I recently posted in the West Virginia forum: What Our Coal Addiction Has Done.... Petrushka Mar 2014 #3

"Reclamation"? Petrushka Mar 2014 #4

I have to tell you... theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #6

151 miles of Virginia streams destroyed carolinayellowdog Mar 2014 #5

A.C.H.E. -- Appalachian Communities Health Emergency Act Petrushka Mar 2014 #7

10th Annual Mountain Justice Summer Camp theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #8

America the Beautiful? --- Willie Nelson Petrushka Mar 2014 #9

Supreme Court Rejects Coal Industry Lawsuit theHandpuppet Mar 2014 #10

DEP slammed for approval of strip mine near Kanawha forest theHandpuppet May 2014 #11

The Human Cost of Coal theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #12

Appeals court upholds EPA’s mountaintop removal crackdown theHandpuppet Jul 2014 #13

Today’s court decision and what it means for Appalachia theHandpuppet Jul 2014 #14

MAP -- Mountaintop Removal Mining and Life Expectancy Chart theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #15

Moving Mountains Tragedy 2014: Stunning Court Denial of Appalachian Health Crisis theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #16

EPA wins another round on Spruce Mine veto theHandpuppet Oct 2014 #17