<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Consider this story of how a few faith community folks
in Georgia are organizing their communities to stop mountaintop
removal.
They’ve moved the entire Greater Atlanta Presbytery – a network of 110
churches – to endorse a resolution that makes the following bold
statement:</div><div><br></div><div><i>...the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta urges the
Georgia General Assembly to enact legislation - House Bill 276 -
prohibiting, over a timed phase, the purchase or use of mountaintop
removal coal for use in Georgia power plants, or in any other
energy-producing process and that there be a moratorium imposed on the
issuance of permits for the construction of any new coal-fired
electrical generating facilities in Georgia until July, 2014… </i></div><div><br></div><div>Full details:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ohvec.org/newsletters/woc_2010_03/article_17.html">http://www.ohvec.org/newsletters/woc_2010_03/article_17.html</a></div><div><br></div>Erik<div><br><div>
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