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4 June 2009 Action Alert: One Call to Help Save Ryerson Station State Park

Ryerson Station State Park is one among 50 parks at risk of closure this July. In 2008 there were 44,230 visitors to Ryerson despite the disappearance of Duke Lake. The State Senate is considering park closures in an effort to cut $19 million from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

"The senate's proposal would be absolutely devastating to these rural areas and to our efforts to preserve our natural resources for present and future generations," DCNR Secretary John Quigley stated in a news release.

Please help us to save Ryerson Station State Park by taking a minute to call Senator J Barry Stout and say "NO" to the closing of Ryerson. It's easy! Just call 724-225-5400 to reach his Eighty-Four, PA office, and say, "I oppose closing Ryerson Station State Park in Greene County." They will ask for your name, address, and phone number. It will take less than 60 seconds.

It's that easy! Can you spare 60 seconds of your day to call Senator Stout?

Also, view an action alert from the PA Forest Coalition that offers talking points to help you in making the call....

News from Mountain Watershed Association:
Curry Mine Proposal Update & Appeal

Amerikohl has approached the Fayette County Zoning Board for a special exception to mine on the Curry Mine in Dunbar Township, Fayette County. Many of our members will remember this proposal from last spring, when the DEP returned the mining permit application to Amerikohl as incomplete.

The hearing on this proposed exception before the Fayette County Zoning Hearing Board has been continued and will resume on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 at 10:00 AM in the Fayette County Public Service Building, 22 East Main Street, Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

The Mountain Watershed Association is accepting donations to help fund legal and consulting fees in conjunction with a challenge to this proposed mine and the zoning exception. Please consider making a donation to the Yough Defense Fund to support these efforts, and be sure to visit the MWA Yough Defense page to learn more...

Updated GIS Data for Greene and Washington Counties Now Available

Learn more about our GIS project and view the data we have available by visiting coalfieldjusticemaps.wikidot.com/

Waterkeeper Alliance has launched an innovative web-based campaign, The Dirty Lie (www.thedirtylie.com), to counter the “clean coal” con and to inspire an energy policy that rejects this archaic and dangerous source of energy and embraces safe, renewable sources instead.  The campaign features information on longwall mining in southwestern PA.

Visit www.thedirtylie.com to learn more!

Investigation of Longwall Mining by Center for Public Integrity

The Center for Public Integrity recently released a new report, The Hidden Costs of Clean Coal: The Environmental and Human Disaster of Longwall Mining. Read it now...