Message from Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, March 10th, 2015
No More MTR Permits Day, March 16th at 11 a.m., hosted by The People’s Foot at the WV Department of Environmental Protection headquarters, 601 57th Street SE, Charleston, WV 25304.
WV-DEP continues to issue mountaintop removal permits that allow the coal industry to blast WV mountains with high explosives unleashing fine particulates of silica, aluminum, and molybdenum dust. These dust particulates are proven to promote lung tumors. Stop harming our health! Put your foot down: No more MTR!
More info here. Free T-shirt for the first 125 people who show up at WV DEP HQ on March 16th.
Message: Respiratory birth defects in mountaintop removal mining communities (MTR) are triple that of NON-MTR communities. A mother that DOES NOT SMOKE, but lives in an MTR community is at 10x’s GREATER RISK of birthing a baby with a respiratory birth defect than a woman THAT DOES SMOKE, but does not live in an MTR community. Research scientists, including West Virginia University’s Mary Baab Randolph Cancer Center have proven that MTR blasting particulate matter collected from the air and people’s homes in MTR communities promotes tumor formation in human lung cells. Cancer rates in MTR communities are nearly triple the national average. There are now more than 25 peer reviewed and published research papers showing mountaintop removal is a major health threat to the living and the unborn. Yet, in spite of this overwhelming evidence the WV Dept. of Environmental Protection continues to issue mountaintop removal permits that allow the coal industry to blast WV mountains with high explosives unleashing fine particulates of silica, aluminum, and molybdenum dust. We, The People will no longer stand silent while the WV DEP with the blessing of Senator Joe Manchin and our Governor continue to encourage and support the poisoning of our children with toxins that cause cancer. Let’s send the WV DEP a loud and firm message to the Secretary of the WV DEP; no more permits, stop allowing this murderous act to continue, mountaintop removal ends today!
Location in Kanawha City: WV Department of Environmental Protection, 601 57th Street Southeast, Charleston, WV 25304, (304) 926-0440.
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Put your foot down to Mountain Top Removal coal mining!
Join many other in Charleston on Monday, March 16th
West Virginians from across the state are standing up to the WV Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to demand they protect our health, communities and mountains from unlimited and destructive mountaintop removal and stop issuing new permits for mountaintop-removal coal mining!
The West Virginia DEP continues to ignore studies showing that mountaintop removal harms our health, cuts our lives short and pollutes our air and water. There’s two actions you can take to help end mountaintop removal right now.
Mountaintop-removal mining pollutes waterways and allows toxic heavy metals such as cadmium, selenium, and arsenic to leach into local water supplies. Mountaintop removal also causes air pollution that affects communities for miles around. Many of the toxins that pollute mountaintop-removal sites are carcinogens, and cancer rates are twice as high for people who live near mountaintop-removal sites.
Ending mountaintop-removal mining and transitioning to clean energy will benefit Appalachia by creating good jobs in the clean-energy and tourism industries and by improving public health.
Thanks for all you do to protect the environment.
West Virginia Sierra Club
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