Email from ILoveMountains - campaign against Mountain Top Removal

[YankeyMCC]

I know there has been some interest here in this campaign before and I thought this approach, of showing the connection to people was a good one so I thought I'd post here.


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For too long, politicians have written off mountaintop removal coal mining as a regional issue -- but in truth it is a national disgrace.

That's why today we're launching "My Connection" -- a major new campaign and a new online tool that shows how your electric company -- and power companies across America -- are connected to mountaintop removal.

Click here to see how you're connected -- and learn what you can do to end that connection:

http://www.ilovemountains.org/myconnection

For years, coal companies have tried to hide the dirty secret behind mountaintop coal - that it comes at the the cost of mountains, communities and even lives.

Yet if you live east of the Mississippi, odds are some of your power comes directly from burning coal from mountaintop removal. And even if you live in California, our tool shows how the money you pay in your electric bill goes into the pockets of mountaintop removal coal companies.

Wherever we live, we all have a connection to mountaintop removal coal mining, and that means it is up to us to do something about it.

Please, visit My Connection to see how your electricity is connected to mountaintop removal - then take action and demand that your power company stop using mountaintop removal coal:

http://www.ilovemountains.org/myconnection

In the past year, our efforts to raise awareness about the devastation of mountaintop removal coal mining have made tremendous gains.

Now, with this major new campaign and webtool utilizing Google Maps and Google Earth, we can show how mountaintop removal coal mining affects and involves Americans all across the country - and tell the stories of the families who live in the shadows of these mines.

But we need your help to get the word out. Please, forward this email on to your friends and family and ask them to visit iLoveMountains.org to learn how they're connected to mountaintop coal.

The coal companies want you to believe that mountaintop removal is just a local issue. But nearly every American is connected to mountaintop removal in some way, and ending this practice is our shared national responsiblity.

So please, visit My Connection, take action, and spread the word:

http://www.ilovemountains.org/myconnection

Thank you for all that you do to defend our mountains.

Mary Anne Hitt
iLoveMountains.org

PS The My Connection campaign is already attracting national attention. Click here to read today's story about iLoveMountains in the Wall Street Journal.

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