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"NOW with Bill Moyers" to Highlight TLPJ's Battle Against Mountaintop Mining on PBS Broadcast Slated for Friday, August 2, at 9:00 p.m. EST/PST on PBS Stations Nationwide
Bill Moyers, one of the most recognized and respected journalists in America, will highlight Trial Lawyers for Public Justice's battle against mountaintop removal mining on "NOW with Bill Moyers" this Friday, August 2, 2002, at 9:00 p.m. EST/PST on PBS stations nationwide. Local broadcast times may vary; please check with your local PBS station for exact dates and times. The broadcast will open with "The Cost of Coal," a 17-minute segment drawing attention to TLPJ's landmark citizen enforcement suits, Bragg v. Robertson and Kentuckians For The Commonwealth v. Rivenburgh. The newscast will also spotlight a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency slide show – prepared to privately brief Bush administration officials and obtained by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice and the Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment on May 2, 2002 – which documents wholesale deforestation, toxic pollution, burying of streams, and other environmental destruction caused by mountaintop removal mining. Joe Lovett of the Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment explains, "You're seeing, I think, devastation on a scale unprecedented in this country. I think the sheer destruction is mind boggling." Moyers anchors the hour-long weekly
news series offering fresh perspectives and analysis on today's
events, issues, and the ideas that are shaping our world. A survey
of television critics by Television Quarterly, the official journal
of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, placed
Moyers among the ten journalists who have had the most significant
influence on television news. The Academy has also recognized his
work with more than 30 Emmy Awards for excellence. He was elected to
the Television Hall of Fame in 1995 and a year later received the
Charles Frankel Prize (now the National Humanities Medal) from the
National Endowment for the Humanities "for outstanding
contributions to American cultural life." "NOW with Bill Moyers" is a
production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. for PBS in
collaboration with NPR News. The series is a national presentation
of Thirteen/WNET
New York, one of the key program providers for public
television.
TLPJ's legal team in Kentuckians
for the Commonwealth includes Hecker, co-counsel; Lovett,
Executive Director of Appalachian Center for the Economy and the
Environment in Lewisburg, West Virginia, co-counsel; and Joe
Childers of Kentuckians For The
Commonwealth in Lexington, Kentucky, co-counsel. |
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Bill Moyers photo courtesy of
"NOW with Bill Moyers." |
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