Congress: Stand Up to King Coal

Fellow CCANers and I had an exciting morning last Thursday, as we planned to dump one ton of coal at the United States Capitol in the Lower Senate Park to protest the legislation on the Senate floor that would allow for 10 billion dollars in direct federal loans for coal to liquid development. FYI: Most of the Senators that support the bill hail from coal industry states.

Soon after the set-up began, the Capitol Police tried to disband the press conference by claiming the flammable qualities of coal could severely put the members of Congress in harms way

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We're All New Orleanians Now

The Washington Post

By Mike Tidwell

How’s this for poetic justice? In future years, the White House and all those federal agencies accused of acting too slowly after Hurricane Katrina smashed New Orleans last August will probably find their own D.C. offices threatened by catastrophic flooding from monster storms. They may be hunkering behind massive levees and fantastic floodgates, harried by the annual threat of Katrina-scale hurricanes.

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Baltimore Sun Review: The Ravaging Tide

As warming seas continue to stoke more intense hurricanes, Tidwell predicts the flooding of parts of Baltimore, the destruction of Assateague Island, waters pouring into the Washington suburbs, the Eastern Shore being almost cut in half by the swollen Nanticoke River and the destruction of the Blackwater National Widlife Refuge. Continue reading