Finally the good guys win one!

The text below is from an email from the Public Justice Foundation.

As you know, we have been involved in litigation against mountaintop removal coal mining for years now and, despite the David v. Goliath quality of this fight, Public Justice continues to win in the courts.

Case in point: Last week, in response to a motion filed by Public Justice on behalf of group of West Virginia residents, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against coal company plans to permanently bury Appalachian streams and threaten homes and neighborhoods in Boone County , WV .

The Callisto Mine would have permanently destroyed 5,750 feet of streams and tributaries that flow into the Little Coal River . The mining company was planning to begin new valley fill activities at the site.

To read the court order, click here.

Under our Environmental Enforcement Project, we have been at the fore of the court fights to stop mountaintop removal mining, which has already buried more than 1,200 miles of streams and destroyed more than 387,000 acres of West Virginia forests and mountains. This method of mining is also responsible for increased severe flooding in communities near mining sites.

Public Justice is joined in this effort by the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Coal River Mountain Watch, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, the Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment, and Earthjustice.

Once again, Public Justice is fighting for the little guy against a powerful industry and winning. This is precisely the kind of work that your support and contributions make possible. Thank you for being there for us so that we, in turn, can continue to be there for the wronged, the poor and the powerless.

Arthur Bryant
Executive Director
Public Justice
& the Public Justice Foundation

Here is an email that I received from Brent. Thanks go out to him for being involved in this issue. If you would like to be involved, check out the web link.


Dear Brent,




Good news!

Your efforts to spread the word about mountaintop removal coal mining - and to reach out to Congress and demand that they act to protect our valleys and mountains - are paying off, big time.

This week, we passed an incredible milestone in our Congressional efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining. Thanks to the action of people like you, there are now a record 104 Members of Congress signed on as co-sponsors to the Clean Water Protection Act (H.R. 2169), which would stop coal companies from dumping their toxic mountaintop removal mining waste into the headwaters of our nation's streams and rivers.

This is an incredible accomplishment, and the credit goes to regular Americans all across the country who are speaking up on behalf of our mountains.

Your Congressional representative is one of those 104 co-sponsors, but we still need you to act.

Could you take a moment to forward this email to your friends and family, and ask them to contact their representatives on behalf of the mountains we all love? Your friends can learn more about the Clean Water Protection Act and mountaintop removal coal mining, and easily email their representatives, by visiting this link:

[www.ilovemountains.org]

For too long politicians have been able to write off mountaintop removal as a regional issue - but more and more people across the country are seeing that it's a national disgrace.

And from the coalfields of Appalachia to the halls of Congress and in all fifty states, there is now growing momentum to end mountaintop removal coal mining once and for all.

That's the direct result of the efforts of people like you to spread the word about mountaintop removal. Thousands of people have joined iLoveMountains.org in the past few months, and we've nearly doubled the Congressional support for ending mountaintop removal coal mining.

Our new record support from Congress will help to change the debate about the future of our mountains. But keeping the pressure on -- and keeping the momentum going -- is critical.

Please, forward this email on to your friends and family, or take a moment to spread the word about iLoveMountains through your personal action page:

[www.iLoveMountains.org]

Thank you for continuing to take action on behalf of the mountains.

Mary Anne Hitt
iLoveMountains.org

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