This week the Environmental Protection Agency took a step to slow mountaintop removal coal mining by writing letters to the Army Corp of Engineers expressing serious concerns about two mining operations in the Appalachians. In mountaintop removal, mountains are blasted apart to gain access to coal, and the mining debris is dumped into nearby valleys, destroying streams and wetlands. Read More…
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Yesterday I wrote about air money, and I explained that one reason companies can look more profitable than they are is because our standard accounting practices don’t require them to mention that, oh, by the way, they just destroyed a … Read More…
The board of trustees for the schools of Missoula County, Montana, recently banned a short film on sustainability from being shown in classrooms. Their reason? The film, according to the one parent who complained about it, is “biased and ill-suited” … Read More…