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Mountaintop Removal Forum Listserv
Our Chapter has a very active Mountaintop Removal (MTR) task force working hard on this issue in Kentucky - and we need all the help and involvement of our members that we can get.
If you would like to learn more about MTR, ask questions, participate in the MTR discussion, get involved in some of the activities with which we need assistance, or simply listen in as a way of staying up to date on what's happening around this issue - we'd like to invite you to join our Cumberland Chapter MTR Forum listserv.
Click the tab below for instructions on how to subscribe:
+ Join the Cumberland Chapter MTR Forum Listserv
To join our MTR Forum Listserv:
Send an Email as described below:
To: Listserv@lists.sierraclub.org
From: <your email address>
Subject:
Body of Email: Subscribe KY-MTR-FORUM YourFirstName YourLastName
If you wish to subscribe to our list, but have trouble, just let us know and we'll be happy to help you!
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Volunteer Help Wanted!
Help us keep you informed about opportunities that fit with your unique environmental concerns and skills. Please share your outings, conservation and volunteer interests with us by completing our Volunteer Interest Survey:
1. Take our on-line Volunteer Interest Survey
2. Or print and complete our
hard-copy Volunteer Interest Survey and Snail Mail it to us at the address on the form.
Visit our Volunteer page for more opportunities to volunteer!
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Sierra Club “Cool Cities” Campaign:
Solving Global Warming One City at a Time
Mayors of the Kentucky cities of Louisville, Lexington, Villa Hills, and Owensboro have signed the "U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement," joining hundreds of mayors across the nation in a pledge to reduce global warming carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution in their cities to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012!
Go to our Cool Cities page to find out how you can help your city become a Cool City.
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Position papers and documents
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Resources
Visit our Resources pages to view conservation fact sheets - like the problems associated with "coal to liquid fuel," "What to do if...guides" for dealing with various environmental problems that may impact you locally, position papers, public comments, and much more. |
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2009 Cumberland Chapter Handbook
Handbook and Outings Guide of the Kentucky Sierra Club. This publication contains information on outings and events for 2007 as well as important contact and organizational information for your Kentucky Chapter and its Groups, Executive Committee members, officers, staff and more.
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Highlights of a few of our upcoming chapter events. For a full list, visit our EVENTS page. |
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Ongoing - 2009
Mountain Top Removal Roadshow
Engagements nation wide
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To help educate Americans about the tragedy of mountaintop removal, the Cumberland Chapter is sponsoring The Mountaintop Removal Roadshow. This travelling presentation, developed and led by Chapter member Dave Cooper, teaches people about the true costs of our nation's addiction to "cheap energy" from coal-fired power plants. Visit our Mountain Top Removal page to learn more about this issue, book a presentation in your community, or view Dave's roadshow calendar.
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Get Outdoors: Elk Viewing
October
117-18, 2009.
Eastern, KY
Come out for an elk-viewing trip of a lifetime. We will visit Eastern Kentucky with Jamie Cook Watchable Wildlife Coordinator for the Dept. of Fish and Wildlife.
On Sunday we will head out for an early morning trip to view these magnificent animals and hear them bugle.
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General news and information. |
KENTUCKY NEWS
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September 25, 2009
Coal Country:
Kentucky Premier Oct. 7th
Lexington, KY- Coal Country, the new film from Evening Star Productions (Appalachia) tells the story of the dramatic struggle happening in central Appalachia communities around mountaintop removal coal-mining. In these communities, miners and residents are locked in conflict: is mining and processing coal essential to providing good jobs, or is it destroying the land, water and air?
The Kentucky Premier occurs Wednesday, 7:30 pm, October 7th, at The Kentucky Theatre, Lexington, KY. Tickets are $25 dollars, and include pre-film performances and post-film discussion panel with our special guests: singer/songwriters, Kathy Mattea and Jean Ritchie, Kentucky native Appalachian author Silas House, artist Jeff Chapman Crane, and many more.
Reserve tickets here
"Coal Country" was made to offer views from both sides of the issue to foster better understanding of this complex dilemma, and take a look at coal mining with compassion and respect.
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September 22, 2009
KY Regulators Fail to Protect Public Health
EPA to step in, address mercury, other harmful air pollution
Lexington, Kentucky –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced it will take action to ensure that the Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative’s (EKPC) Spurlock coal plant will be using the most achievable technologies to obtain limits for unhealthy levels of mercury, hydrochloric acid, dioxin and other hazardous pollutants that would be emitted from the plant.
Read the full Sierra Club press release
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September 15, 2009
Sierra Club Cheers Interior Department Global Warming Strategy
Washington, D.C. - Today, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar launched the first-ever department-wide coordinated strategy to address the impacts of climate change on the public lands, wildlife, coasts and ecosystems managed by his agency.
Read the full Sierra Club press release.
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