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Tell Bank of America and other big banks to STOP funding Arch Coal! | Rainforest Action Network

Tell Bank of America and other big banks to STOP funding Arch Coal!

Click Here to Tell Bank of America and other big banks to STOP funding Arch Coal! | Rainforest Action Network.

To the CEOs of banks that lend to Arch Coal,

It’s time to stop financing a company that destroys mountains and devastates communities. Arch Coal’s planned mountaintop removal mine in Blair, West Virginia would obliterate a nationally recognized historical site. For the town’s residents, the mine would pose severe threats to their health, would contaminate their water, and would subject them to blasting and other hazards.

It’s not too late to save Blair Mountain. It is imperative that your bank stop lending to Arch Coal and adopt strong environmental and human rights lending guidelines to prevent future loans to irresponsible companies such as Arch.

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DEP seeks new fines, plan for W.Va. chemical plant – Houston Chronicle

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A result of the West Virginia Rivers Coalition’s PPG notice of intent to sue action…

DEP seeks new fines, plan for W.Va. chemical plant

By VICKI SMITH, Associated Press | February 22, 2013

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia regulators are seeking nearly $250,000 in new water pollution fines against the owner of a Northern Panhandle chemical plant.

The Department of Environmental Protection says the former PPG plant in Natrium has made progress since the parties reached a corrective-action plan in 2010. But it says the plant has struggled to consistently meet pollution limits for various chemicals.

The plant manufactures chlorine, caustic soda, muriatic acid and calcium hypochlorite. It was sold in January in a $2.5 billion deal Pittsburgh-based PPG made with Georgia Gulf.

In 2010, a judge ordered PPG to pay the state more than $1.3 million for polluting the Ohio River.

The new proposed agreement focuses on long-term plans to reduce the levels of chemicals called BHC-Alpha, BHC-Beta and BHC-Gamma.

BHC stands for benzene hexachloride.

DEP seeks new fines, plan for W.Va. chemical plant – Houston Chronicle.

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Avaaz – Stop the Frankenfish attack

Avaaz - Stop the Frankenfish attack

Posted: 17 January 2013 at https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_frankenfish_r/?bknlCbb&v=21884
The US is about to treat the world to the first genetically modified meat: a mutant salmon that could wipe out wild salmon populations and threaten human health – but we can stop it now before our plates are filled with suspicious Frankenfish. 

The new fake salmon grows twice as fast as real salmon, and not even scientists know its long-term health effects. Yet it’s about to be declared safe for us to eat, based on studies paid for by the company that created the GMO creature! Luckily, the US is legally required to consider public opinion before deciding. A growing coalition of consumers, environmentalists, and fishermen (are) is calling on the government to trash this fishy deal. Let’s urgently build an avalanche of global support to help them win. 

The consultation is happening right now and we have a real chance to keep mutant fish off the menu. Sign to say NO to Frankenfish and share widely — when we reach 1 million, our call will be officially submitted to the public consultation. 

Posted: 17 January 2013 at https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_frankenfish_r/?bknlCbb&v=21884

Click here to record your comments about the Frankenfish Avaaz – Stop the Frankenfish attack.