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Please Call Your Congress Person

Appalachian Voices, Coal River Mountain Watch, Pennies of Promise, OHVEC, Save Our Cumberland Mountains, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, and an army of Appalachian people are in DC right now lobbying for “The Clean Water Protection Act” to help end mountaintop removal. Its absolutely the most phenomenal thing I’ve ever been a part of.

Please chip in by calling representative and ask them to Co-sponsor HR 2719, the “Clean Water Protection Act” and help end mountaintop removal coal-mining forever!

If you know the name of your rep, call the switchboard at 202-224-3121.
To find out the name of your rep, go here

More on the Clean Water Protection Act

Raised on the banks of the Tennessee River, JW's work to create progress in his home state and throughout Appalachia has been featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, The Daily Kos and Grist. He served first as Appalachian Voices’ Legislative Associate and then Tennessee director until leaving to pursue a career in medicine in 2012.


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