Stand With Appalachia Solidarity Day

The Mountain Heroes photo petition.

Today’s the day that we deliver our Mountain Heroes photo petition to the Obama administration! This massive photo petition is historic—it includes photos and personal messages and stories from more than 13,500 people across the country who wrote to President Obama and his administration for an end to mountaintop removal mining. It’s the largest photo petition ever to be delivered to the president, and it’s all about ending the nation’s most destructive mining practice, protecting Appalachian families and communities, and standing up for clean water, healthy communities, environmental justice, and beautiful mountains and wildlife.

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Michael Bloomberg Launches Beyond Carbon, the Largest-Ever Coordinated Campaign Against Climate Change in United States

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$500 million program will employ advocacy, legal, and electoral strategies to accelerate coal plant retirements, stop gas rush, win state and local policy changes and help elect candidates who are climate champions

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Florida utility regulator defends Duke Energy solar program in court challenge

Jordan Luebkemann, Attorney, Florida Office, Earthjustice: “If you follow the money, this program still creates an unfair subsidy by forcing all of Duke’s customers – mostly residential electric users – to subsidize a smaller group of mostly large commercial and industrial customers. That’s not equitable. Having thoroughly briefed this argument before the Public Service Commission…

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