{"id":444142,"date":"2010-03-18T18:36:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=79692"},"modified":"2010-03-18T18:36:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:36:41","slug":"activist-pressuring-obama-to-end-mountaintop-coal-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/444142","title":{"rendered":"Activist Pressuring Obama to End Mountaintop Coal Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, environmental activists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rainforestactionnetwork\/4443257660\/in\/set-72157623519894743\/\" >erected<\/a> two 20-foot teepees (for lack of a better term) in front of EPA headquarters in Washington to protest <a href=\"http:\/\/mountainjusticesummer.org\/facts\/steps.php\" >mountaintop coal mining<\/a>. Ten hours later, they&#8217;re still there, and at least six of them have locked themselves to the teepees with a vow to remain until EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson agrees to fly over a mountaintop removal site . (The claim is that she&#8217;s never seen one.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/79692\/People%20are%20here%20today%20expressing%20views%20on%20MTM,%20a%20critical%20issue%20to%20our%20country.%20Theyre%20concerned%20abt%20human%20health%20&amp;%20water%20quality%20&amp;%20so%20am%20I\" >Via Twitter<\/a>, Jackson acknowledged the protesters:<span id=\"more-79692\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are here today expressing views on MTM, a critical issue to our country,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Theyre concerned abt human health &amp; water quality &amp; so am I.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the eyes of community activist Jeff Biggers, that ain&#8217;t enough. &#8220;Not one &#8212; count &#8216;em &#8212; of Jackson&#8217;s top officials in DC or herself have made any effort to actually visit a mountaintop removal site before making life-threatening decisions,&#8221; Biggers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jeff-biggers\/fundamental-misunderstand_b_504905.html\" >wrote<\/a> today at the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n<p>Considering <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/76219\/now-on-stage-the-story-of-coals-dirty-deadly-legacy\" >what&#8217;s at stake<\/a>, it&#8217;s difficult to argue that he doesn&#8217;t have a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, environmental activists erected two 20-foot teepees (for lack of a better term) in front of EPA headquarters in Washington to protest mountaintop coal mining. Ten hours later, they&#8217;re still there, and at least six of them have locked themselves to the teepees with a vow to remain until EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson agrees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4315,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}