Musicians Align to Protect Appalachians from Mountaintop Removal

Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Kathy Mattea, Big Kenny Alpin and other musicians are coming together in a new campaign called Music Saves Mountains, to help protect the mountains of Appalachia by ending mountaintop removal, the world’s most destructive method of coal mining. Mountaintop removal extracts coal by literally blowing up ridgelines – and the rubble, rock and mining waste that results is dumped into streams.

From MusicSavesMountains.org:

Today, the Appalachians are being ravaged by the most destructive form of coal mining ever devised. Companies are blowing entire mountaintops to smithereens to get at the thin seams of coal below. Already nearly 500 peaks have been leveled, wide swaths of forests have been clearcut, miles of streams have been destroyed or polluted, and countless communities have been harmed by the hunger for fossil fuel.

With the future of America’s oldest mountains at stake, country singers and musicians are coming together to say “enough is enough.” They are joining together to fight for these cherished mountains, where country music was born and which so many songs celebrate.

It’s great to see celebrities put their star power behind a great cause like this – but don’t leave it up to them. You can help, too – tell Congress to stop coal companies from using Appalacian streams as waste dumps at the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) website. It’ll only take a moment – you can use the sample text or write your own message.

If you’re a Tennessee resident, you can also contact your state legislators through NRDC. It might just be the most important thing you do today.

Link [Music Saves Mountains] + [NRDC]

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