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The library at the Lotts Creek Community School is buzzing with excitement as a half-dozen grade schoolers struggle into full-body protective “wee bee” suits. As they labor with zippers and wrestle with veils, a visitor lowers herself into a pint-size chair in their midst. “My name is Tammy Horn,” she says, “but you can just call me the Bee Lady.”[1]
Keep readingThere is a reason that certain states have never been in my research for a retirement home…And mountaintop removal coal mining is it.
Keep readingThis morning’s email brought me this message from iLoveMountains.org… Last week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed eliminating a streamlined permitting process — known as Nationwide Permit 21, or NWP 21– which allows coal companies to seek quick approval for their mountaintop removal coal mining projects. Roughly one-third of mountaintop removal coal mining projects are permitted under nationwide permits,
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