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Fw: need fly ash samples
by Jim Sconyers 17 May '10

17 May '10

Jim Sconyers jim_scon(a)yahoo.com 304.698.9628 Remember: Mother Nature bats last. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Lisa Graves-Marcucci <lisagmarcucci(a)GMAIL.COM> To: COAL-COMBUSTION-WASTE(a)LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG Sent: Mon, May 17, 2010 10:14:28 AM Subject: need fly ash samples Hi all, I am working with a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health. The research team is looking to obtain (5) fly ash samples from various sites throughout the country. If you have a fly ash sample - or are able to obtain one - please let me know and I will put you in touch with the research team. Many thanks, LGM -- Lisa Graves Marcucci Environmental Integrity Project PA Coordinator, Community Outreach 123 Oakwood Drive Jefferson Hills, PA 15025 412-655-0261 412-897-0569 (cell) lisagmarcucci(a)gmail.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the COAL-COMBUSTION-WASTE list, send any message to: COAL-COMBUSTION-WASTE-signoff-request(a)LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp

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Fwd: Emergency Action: Fire Don Blankenship
by Paul Wilson 15 May '10

15 May '10

here's something everyone can do to put a little pressure on the Massey stock holders. best, paul ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Manny Herrmann, American Rights at Work < action(a)americanrightsatwork.org> Date: Sat, May 15, 2010 at 9:06 AM Subject: Emergency Action: Fire Don Blankenship To: Paul Wilson <pjgrunt(a)gmail.com> <http://www.americanrightsatwork.org> Dear Paul, *The West Virginia miners didn't have to die. * We know it – and at Massey Energy's annual meeting this *Tuesday,* we have a chance to do something about it. *Tell Massey shareholders: Fire Don Blankenship!<http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/campaign/fire_blankenship/3ui55un9l7…> * Last month, 29 miners died in a tragedy that was completely preventable. *That should have been reason enough to fire CEO Don Blankenship immediately.* But he's still at the helm of Massey Energy, and every day he stays on, he continues to endanger his workers. So this Tuesday, at Massey's annual shareholder meeting, mineworkers, union leaders, and community leaders will be protesting Don Blankenship's callous disregard for human life. *We've put together a petition to send a strong message to Massey Energy shareholders and corporate leaders when they meet Tuesday. Can you help us collect at least 10,000 signatures by MIDNIGHT MONDAY? **Sign now: Tell Massey shareholders to fire Don Blankenship!*<http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/campaign/fire_blankenship/3ui55un9l7…> Don Blankenship's track record includes: ignoring safety regulations, intimidating workers, and spending millions to elect *judges* who will protect his interests. And he even helps lead the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in its anti-worker campaigns!1,2 *He clearly put profits before safety. That should have been reason enough for Massey's board to find a new CEO.* But since the blood of 29 miners wasn't enough for Massey's board to take immediate action to fire him, hopefully the 30% drop in Massey's stock will give them another reason. That's right – Massey's stock is down more than 30% since the Upper Big Branch disaster, and Blankenship is *still *CEO. That's why – in addition to hundreds of mine workers, union leaders, and allies – big institutional shareholders are speaking up, too. Will you add your voice? *Tell Massey shareholders: Do the right thing and fire Don Blankenship!<http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/campaign/fire_blankenship/3ui55un9l7…> * While firing Blankenship won't give even a measure of justice to the families who lost loved ones in this horrific tragedy, every day he stays as CEO is a slap in the face – a painful reminder of the human cost of corporate greed. We can hold him accountable. *Tell Massey Energy: Blankenship has to go!*<http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/campaign/fire_blankenship/3ui55un9l7…> Thanks so much for all you do for workers' rights. Sincerely, Manny, Liz, and the American Rights at Work team P.S. If Don Blankenship loses his job as the CEO of Massey, he'll almost certainly lose his seat on the board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, too. That'll send a powerful message that corporate America can't ignore: a callous, low-road, anti-worker approach to management is not the way to go. Please *take action now – call on Massey's board to fire Don Blankenship and replace him with someone who cares about worker safety.*<http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/campaign/fire_blankenship/3ui55un9l7…> 1 http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/40533<http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/ct/c1vCFl11rBMA/> 2 http://www.uschamber.com/about/board/all.htm<http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/ct/cdvCFl11rBMM/> This message was sent to pjgrunt(a)gmail.com. Visit your subscription management page<http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/aaraw/smp.tcl?nkey=3ui55un9l7mxb8it&>to modify your email communication preferences or update your personal profile. To stop receiving American Rights at Work E-Activist Alerts, click to unsubscribe<http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/aaraw/remove-domain-direct.tcl?ctx=s…>. To stop ALL email from American Rights at Work, click to remove<http://action.americanrightsatwork.org/aaraw/remove-domain-direct.tcl?ctx=c…>yourself from our lists (or reply via email with "remove or unsubscribe" in the subject line). -- Paul Wilson Sierra Club 504 Jefferson Ave Charles Town, WV 25414-1130 Phone: 304-725-4360 Cell: 304-279-1361 "There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous" ~ Aristotle

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Fw: Our Work Starts Now!
by Jim Sconyers 14 May '10

14 May '10

Jim Sconyers jim_scon(a)yahoo.com 304.698.9628 Remember: Mother Nature bats last. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Jim Sconyers <jim_scon(a)yahoo.com> To: Jim Sconyers <jim_scon(a)yahoo.com> Sent: Thu, May 13, 2010 7:35:44 AM Subject: Fw: Our Work Starts Now! Jim Sconyers jim_scon(a)yahoo.com 304.698.9628 Remember: Mother Nature bats last. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: "Sarah Hodgdon, Sierra Club" <membership.services(a)sierraclub.org> To: jim_scon(a)yahoo.com Sent: Wed, May 12, 2010 8:30:36 PM Subject: Our Work Starts Now! Sierra Club View a web version of this email. Dear Jim, The oil disaster in the Gulf… the coal-mining disaster in West Virginia… enough is enough! Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast Guard Demand that Your Senators Lead the Way to Pass Strong Climate and Energy Legislation. Over the past two weeks, we have all watched the BP oil disaster unfold in the Gulf Coast, and Americans across the country have shown their solidarity with coastal communities grappling with the devastation to their economy and environment. We must break our addiction to the dirty, dangerous fossil fuels that led to the tragedy in the Gulf. Tell your senators we need to put America back in control of our energy future by ending our reliance on dirty, dangerous, and deadly fossil fuels. Today, Senators Kerry and Lieberman introduced a climate proposal that can serve as the foundation on which to build a clean energy economy that no longer relies on oil and coal -- but only if the bill is substantially improved and strengthened. Our leaders in the Senate must seize this opportunity to strengthen their draft legislation into a final bill that will unchain us from dirty energy sources. Demand that your senators lead the effort to move us toward a clean energy future. Last month's coal mine tragedy in West Virginia and the oil disaster in the Gulf make it clear -- we cannot allow dirty energy companies to continue setting the agenda in Washington while putting our health, our safety, our economy, and our national security at risk. Our work starts now -- contact your senators today and tell them to stand up to pressure from the dirty energy lobby and end our reliance on oil and coal. Thanks for all that you do to protect our environment. Sarah Hodgdon Sierra Club Conservation Director P.S. Please forward this message and help spread the word to your friends and family! If you do not wish to receive future emails like this, click here to be removed from this type of email contact. Update My Profile| Manage My Email Preferences | Update My Interests Sierra Club 85 Second St. San Francisco, CA 94105

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Fwd: Fw: Since spill, feds have given 27 waivers to oil companies in gulf | McClatchy
by James Kotcon 11 May '10

11 May '10

This is an on-going news story. Although Obama says there is a moratorium on oil leasing, it does not appear that the Mineral Management Service has gotten the memo. JBK

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Fwd: Fw: We Can't Fight Global Warming Blindfolded
by James Kotcon 11 May '10

11 May '10

To: Energy Committee This is a pretty important initiative, one that could go a long way toward solving many of our energy issues. I recommend that someone take a look at this and try drafting a response letter. I am very interested and will assist, but this is an opportunity for someone who wants to step up their involvement. It is a short-term project, but one with a potentially big impact. Who wants to "Take It To The Next Level!"? JBK

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Fw: We Can't Fight Global Warming Blindfolded
by Jim Sconyers 11 May '10

11 May '10

Jim Sconyers jim_scon(a)yahoo.com 304.698.9628 Remember: Mother Nature bats last. ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: "Mary Anne Hitt, Sierra Club" <membership.services(a)sierraclub.org> To: jim_scon(a)yahoo.com Sent: Mon, May 10, 2010 9:03:03 PM Subject: We Can't Fight Global Warming Blindfolded Sierra Club View a web version of this email. Jim, Tell CEQ it's Time for Federal Agencies to Start Factoring Climate into their Decisions. Environmental impacts studies are a key tool that federal agencies use to evaluate the possible environmental costs of the permits they issue and the work they do. However, climate change is rarely factored into these decisions, allowing projects like coal power plants and mega-highways to move forward without owning up to their real impacts. But the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) is working to change this, and they need your help. Let CEQ know that you support their work to make climate change a factor in the decision making process by sending a public comment today. Environmental disasters happen because we turn a blind eye to the risks. The BP oil disaster that is unfolding in the Gulf? The Deepwater Horizon was exempted from a detailed environmental impact study because three reviews concluded that a spill was "unlikely."1 We cannot allow an oversight like this to occur again, and yet they happen every day because federal agencies are allowed to ignore the greatest threat to our environment -- global warming. Tell CEQ we cannot wait any longer for new guidance requiring agencies to evaluate the risk to our climate when making decisions. The new guidance that CEQ proposed isn't perfect. It exempts land management decisions from climate analysis, meaning efforts to cut forests or plow under prairies can move forward without addressing the critical role our wild places play in trapping carbon pollution. Thank CEQ for starting the process by proposing to require climate be included in the decision making process, and tell them to finish the job by closing the loophole for land management. Thanks for all that you do to protect the environment. Mary Anne Hitt Sierra Club Big Picture Campaign P.S. Please forward this message and help spread the word to your friends and family! [1] "U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study," Juliet Eilperin, The Washington Post: May 10, 2010. If you do not wish to receive future emails like this, click here to be removed from this type of email contact. Update My Profile| Manage My Email Preferences | Update My Interests Sierra Club 85 Second St. San Francisco, CA 94105

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NYTimes: In Backing Clean Energy Start-Ups, Fund Looks for Longer Résumés
by William DePaulo 11 May '10

11 May '10

From The New York Times: In Backing Clean Energy Start-Ups, Fund Looks for Longer Résumés Virgin Green Fund, an investment firm backed by Richard Branson, is investing in established companies, with better odds, instead of looking for home runs. http://nyti.ms/akOzvH Get The New York Times on your iPhone for free by visiting http://itunes.com/apps/nytimes William V DePaulo, Esq 179 Summers Street #232 Charleston WV 25301-2163 Tel 304-342-5588 Fax 304-342-5505 william.depaulo(a)gmail.com www.passeggiata.com

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Fwd: EPA announces coal ash rule today!
by Paul Wilson 07 May '10

07 May '10

might be worthwhile to get out a chapter alert on either CONVIO or just on the Chapter website? best, paul ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lyndsay Moseley <Lyndsay.Moseley(a)sierraclub.org> Date: Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:39 PM Subject: EPA announces coal ash rule today! To: COAL-CAMPAIGN-ALERTS(a)lists.sierraclub.org All: EPA finally proposed new safeguards for toxic coal ash today! After a quick review, EPA has proposed two options for regulation of coal ash under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and is seeking public comment on both options. The first option designates coal ash as a "special waste" under Subtitle C of RCRA and would provide the kind of federally enforceable safeguards we've been advocating for to adequately protect the public from toxic coal ash. The other option regulates coal ash under Subtitle D of RCRA and the other treats toxic coal ash (which contains potentially dangerous levels of arsenic, lead, and other heavy metals) less stringent than household garbage. Both the science and past failures of the patchwork of state-based regulations call for the stronger, federal protections. There will be a 90-day public comment period during which Sierra Club will be working hard to call on EPA to adopt the most protective safeguards. Stay tuned! Here is a link to the proposed rule: http://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/industrial/special/fossil/ccr-rule/ccr-rule-p… Best, Lyndsay Lyndsay Moseley Washington Representative Sierra Club, Beyond Coal Campaign 408 C St. NE Washington, DC 20002 tel: 202-548-4581 fax: 202-547-6009 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the COAL-CAMPAIGN-ALERTS list, send any message to: COAL-CAMPAIGN-ALERTS-signoff-request(a)LISTS.SIERRACLUB.ORG Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp Sign up to receive Sierra Club Insider, the flagship e-newsletter. Sent out twice a month, it features the Club's latest news and activities. Subscribe and view recent editions at http://www.sierraclub.org/insider/ -- Paul Wilson Sierra Club 504 Jefferson Ave Charles Town, WV 25414-1130 Phone: 304-725-4360 Cell: 304-279-1361 "There is no forward until you have gone back" ~Buddha "In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous" ~ Aristotle

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Coal CEO''s swagger .... strong-interesting piece by Susanna Rodell
by Frank Young 06 May '10

06 May '10

This was one of the posts in Vivian Stoickman's daily list for OVEC website. Many of us remember Susanna Rodell from her former work with the Charleston (WV) Gazette...... http://www.ajc.com/opinion/the-swagger-behind-a-520788.html The swagger behind a mining tragedy By Susanna Rodell 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, May 5, 2010 After I signed on as editorial page editor of the Charleston Gazette, West Virginia’s premier newspaper, the first visitor to the editorial board was Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. I arrived in 2003, and I’d been mostly delighted with this quirky, gorgeous and still isolated piece of America. But I quickly bumped up against West Virginia’s dark side: the ravages of coal mining. The mountains were being raped. Mountaintop removal was destroying much of the last wild landscape in the eastern U.S. “Mountaintop removal,” by the way, is a terrible misnomer, since it creates the impression that it’s simply a matter of slicing the tops off some remote peaks. In fact, the practice systematically destroys entire mountains, reducing them to rubble that then chokes the surrounding valleys, creating thousands of acres of decimated, dead landscape. And the main character in this ongoing drama, I was informed — a man who could have come from Central Casting in the role of old-fashioned mustachioed Bad Guy — was Blankenship. He arrived at our office with a PR guy in a green suit and regaled our little gathering with his Local Boy history: childhood in rural Mingo County, graduation from West Virginia University, working his way up from the bottom of the industry. He then told us he thought it would be only fitting for us to give him a regular column. We didn’t do that. We told him we’d be happy to treat him as any other member of the community and consider any contribution to our op-ed page, but that we weren’t in the habit of handing out weekly space to anyone who asked for it. To him, I’m sure, it only seemed fair that he should have his own regular forum in the paper to “balance” the aggressive and dedicated reporting of our coal beat reporter, Ken Ward. What I remember most about the encounter, however, was Blankenship’s quiet arrogance: He was clearly a man used to getting what he wanted and utterly convinced of his right to walk into the local newspaper and demand a forum. Once he figured out that wasn’t going to happen, we paid a price: He slapped the paper with a $300 million defamation suit. He lost the suit eventually, but it cost our little paper dearly in legal fees. And in the intervening time, he would ruin the career of a state Supreme Court judge who ruled against his company in environmental suits, spending millions to promote the election of an unknown lawyer who then ruled in his favor. For a while, it seemed Blankenship would have his way. The Bush administration had stacked the Mining Safety and Health Administration and the EPA with industry-friendly types who weren’t much interested in enforcing environmental or safety regulations. Ward’s reporting at the Gazette doggedly pointed this out, along with the tragic results. >From time to time, as in 2007 with the Sago disaster, national attention would briefly be focused on West Virginia. But only briefly. And in my subsequent forays into the world beyond those mountains, I found it nearly impossible to get anyone to listen to the story. Beyond the mountains, West Virginia seemed to exist only as an amusing stereotype: pretty scenery and poor people, some of them coal miners. Not really a part of 21st-century America. That isolation helped Blankenship. For years it seemed no one outside the state cared that he had succeeded in buying his own justice. It also helped the man to believe in his own mythology. For a few years, he seemed invincible. Then two things happened: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that Brent Benjamin, the judge elected with the benefit of Blankenship’s largesse, should have recused himself from ruling in a suit involving Massey. Then came the explosion at Montcoal, killing 29 miners, the worst U.S. coal-mining disaster in 40 years, and subsequent revelations about Massey’s safety record. And now the FBI has opened a criminal investigation into the Massey tragedy; several news outlets report that it includes allegations of bribery of state and federal inspectors. Blankenship is not the only character in this story. Last week, two miners were killed in a roof collapse at a mine in Kentucky. The Kentucky mine belongs to another company, and the neglect of Appalachia is a theme in American history. But the Massey CEO’s aggressive tactics, combined with the recent anti-regulatory atmosphere in Washington, helped perpetuate both environmental and human disasters. West Virginia’s coal industry likes to tout itself as the lifeblood of the state’s economy. Too much government interference, the coal apologists love to assert, will cripple a state whose economy is already close to the weakest in the nation. But as a former colleague reminded me this week, there are now more nurses in the state than coal miners. This year, with a nonfarm work force of about 730,000, mining and forestry combined only employed 27,900. Coal only accounts for about 7 percent of the gross state product. In fact, coal is probably more important to the rest of the country than it is to West Virginians. Most of the relatively cheap electricity we depend on comes from coal. Thanks to automation (including the scary, stories-high machines that efficiently chew up the mountains), more coal is mined today with fewer workers. All those “clean” cars we intend to plug in will have to get their power from somewhere: chances are, from coal-fired plants. So yes, while the swaggering Blankenship deserves considerable blame, there’s another enemy in this story: the one we see in the mirror. The least we can do, as participants in this drama, is to remember who’s risking their lives to keep our lights on, and encourage our lawmakers to keep up the pressure on Big Coal and its enablers to clean up their act. Make sure they can’t hide behind the mountains any more. Susanna Rodell lives in Milton.

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NYTimes.com: No Fooling Mother Nature
by william.depaulo＠gmail.com 05 May '10

05 May '10

This page was sent to you by: william.depaulo(a)gmail.com. OPINION | May 05, 2010 Op-Ed Columnist: No Fooling Mother Nature By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN After the oil spill in the gulf, an energy/climate/jobs bill is needed more than ever. America has to stop messing around with the environment's future. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/opinion/05friedman.html?emc=eta1 ---------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT THIS E-MAIL This e-mail was sent to you by a friend through NYTimes.com's E-mail This Article service. For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help(a)nytimes.com. NYTimes.com 620 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10018 Copyright 2010 The New York Times Company

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