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| Aug 26 2007, 10:13 AM EDT (current) | fred1st | 4 words added, 2 words deleted |
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Below are instructions for wading through far too much upfront garbage to get to the comments area to let your voice be heard during a short public review period against this administration's shameful concessions to the Coal Lobby. Please share this (cut and paste text with separate links below the formatted text to make it easy to share and adapt. Do so, please!)
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First go to this page. http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main
In the SEARCH DOCUMENTS panel drop down, select
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT and submit.
From the page that opens select DOCUMENT OSM-2007-0007-0001
From that page, you can read the document and/or click the COMMENTS button and enter your comments. Click HERE if you don't know your Congressman to put in the SUBMITTERS REPRESENTATIVE field). You might cut and paste your comment and send it directly to your congressman on the page link just provided.)
Your comment might say something like the following
(feel free to copy and edit my words to suit):
(feel free to copy and edit my words to suit):
I am writing in regard to DOCKET ID OSM-2007-0007 which would further weaken environmental protection of the natural and human environments in the coal-bearing portions of the Appalachian states where mountain top removal coal extraction is currently taking place.
I support as rapid a transition as possible away from our dependence on coal to provide electicity.electrical power. I support a significant increase in our national budget toward alternative sources of clean energy such as geothermal, wind, solar and other methods.
I support a national effort mandated from the Presidential office and sustained across successive administrations to significantly reduce our inefficiencies and waste of electrical energy and to support and require significant conservation measures that would obviate the purported need for numerous additional coal-fired facilities in the coming decades.
I am strongly opposed to mountain top removal as a means of obtaining coal at the expense of our mountains, the headwaters of our streams and for the health and safety risks that kind of mining poses to families and communities. I am opposed to this pending regulation that serves those who financially profit from extraction efficiency and punishes all of us who share the harm brought to the commons of the natural communities we call home.
(BELOW is cut and paste text and links separate to adapt for your webpage or blog:)
Instructions for wading through far too much upfront garbage to get to the comments area to let your voice be heard (during a short public review period) against this administration's shameful concessions to the Coal Lobby. http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/23/3364/
Go to this page. http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main
In the SEARCH DOCUMENTS panel drop down, select
OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT and submit.
From the page that opens select DOCUMENT OSM-2007-0007-0001
From that page, you can read the document and/or click the COMMENTS button and enter your comments. Click HERE if you don't know your Congressman to put in the SUBMITTERS REPRESENTATIVE field). You might cut and paste your comment and send it directly to your congressman on the page link just provided.) http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Your comment might say something like the following:
I am writing in regard to DOCKET ID OSM-2007-0007 which would further weaken environmental protection of the natural and human environments in the coal-bearing portions of the Appalachian states where mountain top removal coal extraction is currently taking place.
I support as rapid a transition as possible away from our dependence on coal to provide electicity.electrical power. I support a significant increase in our national budget toward alternative sources of clean energy such as geothermal, wind, solar and other methods.
I support a national effort mandated from the Presidential office and sustained across successive administrations to significantly reduce our inefficiencies and waste of electrical energy and to support and require significant conservation measures that would obviate the purported need for numerous additional coal-fired facilities in the coming decades.
I am strongly opposed to mountain top removal as a means of obtaining coal at the expense of our mountains, the headwaters of our streams and for the health and safety risks that kind of mining poses to families and communities. I am opposed to this pending regulation that serves those who financially profit from extraction efficiency and punishes all of us who share the harm brought to the commons of the natural communities we call home.
