Tag: streams

Mountaintop Removal: Laying Waste to Streams and Forests

by | 8.11.2011 at 2:01pm
Photo credit: NRDC

Mountaintop removal mining, an environmentally devastating form of coal mining that involves blowing off the tops of mountains, has already leveled over 500 mountains and buried 1,200 miles of streams in the Appalachians.

Protecting Our Waterways: The Waterkeeper Alliance

by | 1.13.2011 at 12:58pm
The Hudson River. Photo credit: Rolf Muller

At any given time, there are dedicated environmentalists around the U.S. working to protect our waterways.These “keepers” are all members of the Waterkeeper Alliance (WKA), an organization of over 200 keepers globally, defending their communities’ rights to clean water.