http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/11/mountaintop-removal-laying-waste-to-streams-and-forests/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/11/mountaintop-removal-laying-waste-to-streams-and-forests/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:01:47 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=16792 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.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/08/11/mountaintop-removal-laying-waste-to-streams-and-forests/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/13/protecting-our-waterways-the-waterkeeper-alliance/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/13/protecting-our-waterways-the-waterkeeper-alliance/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:58:32 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=10547 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.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/13/protecting-our-waterways-the-waterkeeper-alliance/feed/ 0