Chase Funding Mountaintop Removal

STOP CHASE FROM FUNDING THE DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA
Social Media Can Move Mountains, Or Keep Them In Place

Today, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) hosts PUT CHASE ON THE RUN, a social media day of action, to convince Chase bank to stop funding mountaintop removal coal mining in the Appalachian Mountains.

JP Morgan Chase is the biggest U.S. financier of Mountaintop Removal (MTR). Mountaintop removal is the highly destructive mining practice that blows apart the tops of mountains in order to access coal in the cheapest way possible. MTR has buried over 2000 miles of rivers and streams and destroyed nearly 1.2 million acres of the Appalachian range. MTR has severely contaminated the air and drinking water, causing increased rates of mortality and disease for local people in the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.

Join dozens of organizations and thousands of online activists in convincing Chase to stop destroying American mountains. Take a simple action on your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, blog or email to end mountaintop removal in 2010. Go to www.DirtyMoney.org for instructions and PUT CHASE ON THE RUN!

This is the kind of environmental destruction that gets me fired up about renewable energy. I love the mountains and even though I don't live in Appalachia, the people there deserve to have their mountains left intact and not destroyed by companies like Chase Bank. Take action. Do something to save our mountains for today.