“Mountaintop Removal is going to be ended. We will not back down on this issue.” In this fantastic video, done on September 27th, you can see a growing movement of people are demanding the end to coal mining and mountaintop removal mining and even better, the use of coal itself. Dr. James Hansen was among those arrested protesting in Washington against coal strip mining and mountaintop removal. “Appalachia Rising is a mass mobilization in Washington DC on September 27, 2010 calling for the abolition of mountaintop removal and surface mining.” This message is as basic as the human right of everyone to have clean air and clean water, necessities of life.  Coal and other fossil fuels directly threaten our rights to these natural resources. Video by Appalachia Rising.  Read more about this event here.

Below  is more environmental news collected from Climate Crisis Coalition and Dot Earth.

Obama’s Chunky Energy-Climate Plan

In a new Rolling Stone interview, President Obama has offered a replacement for the now-defunct notion of comprehensive climate and energy legislation: a policy rolled out in “chunks.”

Given the inability of Congress, after seven years of struggling, to pass “comprehensive” climate legislation, it’s good to see a shift to the approach pushed by, among others,  Stephen H. Schneider, the veteran climate science and policy expert at Stanford University who long stressed the need for a sequence of steps to build public support before the heavier lifting comes. Of course the question is, what are Obama’s “chunks”?

‘One Nation’ March on Washington Set for Saturday. eWorldPost, 9/29/10. “‘One Nation working together’ is gaining momentum albeit slowly. The Tea Party, the unemployment, the budget deficits and the foreclosure is making [for difficult times]… Under these dim circumstances it is really good to see that almost 170 organizations have united together and formed One Nation Working Together. It is a coalition that is demanding for all the positive changes they voted for in the year 2008.  However, the question is how will this massive coalition work and will they achieve the objective. By the look of things the media is not very interested in covering this coalition. The immediate objective of One Nation Working Together is a mass mobilization on the 2nd of October. The event will be happening in Washington. It is believed that caravans and buses from all across the nation will arrive by noon and thousands of people will participate in the four hour rally. There will be affiliated events in other parts of the country as well.” Editor’s Note: The Climate Crisis Coalition is a sponsor of the One Nation march.

Big Oil and Other Industries Spend Over $500 Million Against Climate Legislation. ClimateProgress, 9/27/10. “The oil, gas, and coal industries have spent over $2 billion lobbying Congress since 1999. These three industries combined spent a whopping $543 million on lobbying in 2009 and the first two quarters of 2010. Meanwhile, alternative energy companies spent less than $32 [...]