Coal waste poses a monumental risk to your health and safety. Help us tell your Representatives to not sign Rep. Holden’s letter to President Obama, but instead urge them to tell EPA that coal ash must be regulated as the hazardous waste it is.

We must take it to the next level if we are going to stop mountaintop removal this year—before election season fever takes over the attention of our political decision-makers, before Washington succumbs deeper to the pressure of the powerful coal lobby, before another mountain is lost.

In celebration of The Dirty Lie’s first birthday, Waterkeeper Alliance is hosting a contest to find the best short video telling the world that clean coal is nothing but a dirty lie.

If industry succeeds in gutting the Clean Air Act, it will destroy a golden opportunity to cut carbon pollution now and jump start the transition to a clean energy economy. We need your help to stop this assault on the Clean Air Act!

Today, we’re joining with Rainforest Action Network and thousands of friends on the internet in sending a message to JPMorgan Chase to stop financing mountaintop removal coal mining!

Tell your elected official to regulate coal ash and other coal combustion wastes as a hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA)!
Coal combustion waste contains concentrated levels of toxic, radioactive, and carcinogenic compounds like arsenic, chromium, lead, mercury, thorium, and uranium. The cancer risks associated with exposure to coal combustion waste are equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes every day, breathing air with radon concentrations 20 times the level considered safe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or drinking water polluted with 20 times the amount of vinyl chloride the EPA has set as the maximum contaminant level. The added cancer risk to children who drink water contaminated with arsenic from coal combustion waste is 900 times higher than the EPA’s recommended level. Read More!

Today we need you to take swift action to ensure that the EPA’s support of Patriot Coal is not a sign of things to come. Call the EPA today and ask them to protect the people of West Virginia and clean water by banning mountaintop removal coal mining!

Take a tour of the Perry County site with your Hurricane Creekkeper, John Wathen and see first hand how TVA’s coal ash from hundreds of miles away is gravely threatening this community.

During this holiday season, please tell JPMorgan Chase to stop using your money to fund the destruction of Coal River Mountain, Appalachia, and our future: nobody deserves coal.

Can you take 5 minutes today to call the Las Brisas plant investors (Chase Power), asking them to stop another dirty plant from going online? It’s an important call to make!