Sentence examples for stop mountaintop from inspiring English sources
But Jennifer Chavez, a lawyer with EarthJustice, a law firm that has sued to stop mountaintop mining, said the E.P.A. was only reversing a practice of issuing permits "like hotcakes" under the Bush administration.
Among its chief sponsors are John Mica, Republican of Florida, who is angry at the E.P.A.'s recent crackdown on the agricultural pollutants that are destroying the Everglades, and Nick Rahall, Democrat of West Virginia, who is furious at the agency's effort to stop mountaintop mining from poisoning his state's rivers and streams.
Like many of the victims who were involved in political issues or social service activities, Austin had an intense interest in raising awareness about the ethnic killings in Darfur and working to stop mountaintop removal, a controversial method of coal mining, Mr. Cloyd said.
We need to stop mountaintop removal.
If we can stop the proposed Keystone pipeline, we can stop mountaintop removal.
The campaign to stop mountaintop removal has been going on for more than a decade.
Since then, thousands of people — neighbors, environmental activists, politicians, mining company officials, industry regulators and crowds at the rallies she organized — have heard from the short, round-faced woman known as the godmother of the movement to stop mountaintop-removal coal mining.
Stopping the tar sands pipeline, stopping mountaintop removal, clear cutting, oil production, increasing solar, wind and geothermal as energy sources; this is way more important to me, right now, than marriage, lifting the ban on trans people in the military, and hate crimes legislation.
"There are many things we ought to do to deal with climate change," James E. Hansen, a climatologist at NASA and Columbia University, said Thursday, "but stopping mountaintop-removal is the place to start.
One of the amazing brains and strategists behind the anti-coal movement, CoalSwarm director Ted Nace has written a powerful chronicle of the grassroots movements to stop the construction of coal-fired plants, and halt mountaintop removal operations in Appalachia.
"People need to stop saying mountaintop removal is over," said Goldman Prize recipient Maria Gunnoe, who lives under a mountaintop removal operation in West Virginia.
