The coal mining industry is trying to remove mountains—literally. Through mountaintop removal coal mining these companies are dumping mountaintops into rivers and streams and polluting the surrounding communities.
That's why more than 150 citizens from 25 states are taking to the halls of Congress this week to ask their representatives to cosponsor the Clean Water Protection Act, H.R. 1310 - a bill that will rein in mountaintop removal coal mining.
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Please call your Congressional Representative and urge them to end mountaintop removal coal mining by supporting the Clean Water Protection Act.
The Clean Water Protection Act will restore the original intent of the Clean Water Act to ensure that mining waste doesn't end up in our streams and rivers.
The momentum around this legislation is growing. So far over 120 members of Congress have signed on to support the bill, and just today the New York Times editorialized on the urgency of protecting
But we still have a long way to go. We need your help to make sure that Congress acts to restore these critical protections to
Please call your Representative and urge them to cosponsor the Clean Water Protection Act, H.R. 1310.
In the last week over 11,000 people emailed their Congressional Representatives and asked them to support this bill. With your help, our message will be impossible to ignore: Support the Clean Water Protection Act to help end the devastating effects of mountaintop removal on the communities of
This is our chance to end the destruction of
http://action.sierraclub.org/cleanwateract
Many thanks for all that you do to help end mountaintop removal coal mining.
Sincerely,
Mary Anne Hitt, Deputy Director
Sierra Club Beyond Coal Campaign
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