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NCC Eco-Justice Program screens “Dirty Business,”
an award-winning documentary on mountaintop removal

 

York Harbor, Maine, December 9, 2011 – The film, “Dirty Business: ‘Clean Coal’ and the Battle for our Energy Future,” was screened here this week at St. George’s Episcopal Church.

 

The award winning film, produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting, was shown as part of the National Council of Churches long-standing campaign against mountaintop removal. “Dirty Business” examines the social and environmental costs of coal power.

 

United Methodist Bishop Cliff Ives, now retired from West Virginia, came to the screening to describe the two-decade-long advocacy efforts of the United Methodist Church and other faith groups to halt mountaintop removal coal mining.

 

The next NCC-sponsored screening of “Dirty Business” is 10 a.m. on December 10 at the Dayton, Ohio, Peace Museum, 208 West Monument Ave. in Dayton. This showing will be in collaboration with Ohio Interfaith Power and Light as a part of its eco film series.

 

The Eco-Justice Program office of the National Council of Churches works in cooperation with the NCC Eco-Justice Working Group to provide an opportunity for the national bodies of member Protestant and Orthodox communions to work together to protect and restore God's Creation.

For more information or to schedule a film screening and program contact William Layton, NCC Eco-Justice Fellow at william@nccecojustice.org

 



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