"If that's my mountaintop, that's my mountaintop," he told himself.
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Illustration: Randall MunroeA good setup would consist of a camera on a mountaintop, with the subject standing on a much higher mountaintop.
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"On these tours, you zip from mountaintop to mountaintop to where the valleys meet so you are hundreds of feet above the forest canopy," she said.
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One spread depicts a mountaintop in ski season, whitened by snow and swarming with skiers; another shows the same mountaintop in summer, thick with hikers and picnickers.
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EPA WINS IN MOUNTAINTOP MINING CASE: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prevailed Tuesday in a years-old fight over whether it can retroactively veto a mountaintop-removal mining permit.
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Someone else saw a scorpion falling; he thought it was an antahualla, a mythical creature in local lore that soars from mountaintop to mountaintop at night, cloaked in light, menacing those below.
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"At this point, I've been to the mountaintop," Thompson said.
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He descended from the mountaintop into an inferno of hate.
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An ancient red rock canyon or a serene mountaintop escape?
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The cable car to its mountaintop location keeps breaking down.
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As a metaphor, the mountaintop crystallizes a moment of possibility.
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She shared a video of herself dancing on a snowy mountaintop.
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We have to get to that mountaintop, and we understand that.
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Mountaintop removal in Virginia as seen from Black Mountain in Kentucky.
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Here's a fascinating view into the lives of Yemen's mountaintop dwellers:
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Broadway, the mountaintop of theater, is by nature a demanding place.
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Even the mountaintop is always shifting with its inevitable weather changes.
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We have not yet reached the mountaintop King saw so clearly.
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Titled "I've Been to the Mountaintop," it was his last speech.
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But favorable circumstances may also shrink well before they reach the mountaintop.
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I've worn this on many a mountaintop and always been quite cozy.
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That night, at a local church, he delivered his apocalyptic "Mountaintop" speech.
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The clouds cleared for a minute, revealing a barren red-dirt mountaintop.
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Andrea owned a remote mountaintop home in upstate New York for decades.
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We had a group of 8 for the mountaintop tour on Saturday morning.
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The ordainment ceremony took place at a mountaintop temple in Chiang Rai province.
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"The man on the mountaintop is imagining God is his witness," he said.
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He had been to the mountaintop; but he had hit some valleys too.
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I am running for president because I want to get to the mountaintop!
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The pair first met in June 1910, at a mountaintop retreat in Austria.
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Numerous outfits propose zapping debris with a laser mounted on a mountaintop or spacecraft.
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Geisel could see the tree from his mountaintop home, according to the city's website.
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The mountaintop is covered in synthetic bristles designed to simulate a freshly groomed slope.
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Boris, having reached the mountaintop of NBA success, must find new mountains to climb.
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The famous lines — like "I've been to the mountaintop" — aren't the only worthwhile ones.
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The software will instantly turn a couple of lines into a gorgeous mountaintop sunset.
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But if those fundamentals are in place, OKRs can guide you to the mountaintop.
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And its component observatories span the entire world, not just a mountaintop in Chile.
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It was the mountaintop sermon, the last sermon he gave before he was assassinated.
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There's simply nothing like visiting an ancient mountaintop fortress that overlooks the Dead Sea.
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The other time I was stuck in a mountaintop in Colombia, researching a book.
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That's why in Wales a power company engineered a special lake on a mountaintop.
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Another had worked as a waiter serving wine in a mountaintop restaurant days before.
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Looks like this might've pushed her over the mountaintop in a different way, though.
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And acid rain from Midwest smokestacks kills off the mountaintop forests of the Northeast.
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A banner demanding "true universal suffrage" was hung on a different mountaintop on Tuesday morning.
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Donald Trump's racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rise to the top of the GOP mountaintop is undeniable.
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Does it matter what powerful men say from the mountaintop if no one is listening?
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Mountaintop mining had declined during the Obama administration, dropping by 62% from 2008 to 2014.
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Actually visiting the mountaintop can impress your friends, mattering beyond the sensation of being there.
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Shortly after Bowerman returned from those Games, I drove to his mountaintop house in Eugene.
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The rule in question looks to prevent stream and waterway contamination from mountaintop removal mining.
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I get to pretend I'm on a mountaintop with my hair blowing in the wind.
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Mountaintop removal [a destructive coal strip-mining practice] feels like decapitating my gods to me.
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The Maria Fire exploded to 9,412 acres overnight on a mountaintop in Ventura County, California.
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Their purpose is to take care of the Jefferson family graveyard up on the mountaintop.
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Clad in Tibetan monk robes, Darrell meditates on a mountaintop until reaching his peak experience.
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Randall captured this photo on a mountaintop in Bella Coola, located in British Columbia, Canada.
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Kay said he was "disappointed" the rule didn't go further to curtail mountaintop removal mining.
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But if you wait to buy your gear on sale—like, say, on Black Friday—then you're wasting valuable time on a computer, when you could be catching some early snow on the slopes, traipsing from mountaintop to mountaintop, or just sitting by a fire.
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It's a story that's playing out across the entire world, from mountaintop glaciers to Caribbean islands.
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He continued to battle al-Qaida until the mountaintop was secured and his team was extracted.
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He came in and that's when he walked through the aisle and gave the "Mountaintop" speech.
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That troubled me for years, and so did his final "Mountaintop" speech, the eeriness of it.
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Her 2012 follow-up to "The Mountaintop" was "Hurt Village," set in a Memphis housing project.
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Mountaintop aeries like the Aragats Cosmic Ray Research Station receded in the quest for ultimate knowledge.
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He knew what the affairs of the world were worth beside the majesty of the mountaintop.
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Another tough day of climbing awaits on Thursday with a mountaintop finish on the Col d'Izoard.
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But he does have an abominable problem: He lives on a mountaintop but doesn't like snow.
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Kanye bundled up like he was still on a Wyoming mountaintop, despite the 75 degree weather.
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To get reception they often need to travel to a nearby mountaintop or head into a village.
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You may arrive at Eventide Island by boat or a very long glide from a distant mountaintop.
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The mountaintop photos began after she had lost a bet to a friend a few years ago.
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"Mountaintop removal mining has been shown to cause lung cancer, heart disease, and other medical problems," Rep.
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Her precocity was evident early on; it was like a flag being waved energetically from a mountaintop.
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A good therapist can help you identify the patterns behind your inability to reach this particular mountaintop.
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Albarracín sits perched high on a mountaintop above the Río Guadalaviar in the Spanish province of Teruel.
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"You always get a buzz when you're doing a bunch sprint, or a mountaintop finish," he said.
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Crested Butte will hold four full moon parties at its mountaintop Umbrella Bar for uphillers this year.
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Today we know the fuel for this flaming mountaintop is gas escaping from deep within the earth.
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What really prevented her from reaching the mountaintop was a lack of competitive success at the track.
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In the end, the rains stop, and Uta-napishti's ark, like Noah's, gets snagged on a mountaintop.
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That mountaintop, thankfully, merely requires winning the game — not styling for the sake of a television spectacle.
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Coal employment's plunge began decades ago, driven mainly by the switch to strip mining and mountaintop removal.
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King wasn't supposed to make the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech the night before his assassination.
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Your phone stays on silent while you walk through the woods or catch a sunrise from the mountaintop.
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A mountaintop post office is visited by a mail delivery hot air balloon docked on a cloudy platform.
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But long before this mountaintop was home to modern observatories, it was the temple of another celestial tradition.
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Willcock: You had to wait for the adrenaline to die down before you could take in the mountaintop.
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Transporting Trump to the mountaintop overlooking the Dead Sea would have required the use of a cable car.
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Homes that are part of beyond are among Airbnb's mot high-end homes: beachside villas and mountaintop mansions.
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"Mountaintop removal mining has been shown to cause lung cancer, heart disease, and other medical problems," Democratic Rep.
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Israel's ancient fortress Masada is an incredible place to visit, on a mountaintop plateau above the Dead Sea.
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Bending down on one knee on a mountaintop just won't cut it anymore; you need to go big.
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Learn the fine art of scaling your startup from a panel of experts who've been to the mountaintop.
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Unlike other artist and activists of her time, Aretha lived to see her people arrive at the mountaintop.
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He also e-mailed photographs of Yazidi children, weakened by thirst, and a video of a mountaintop burial.
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Thiebaud's "Big Rock Mountain," completed in 2019, is a revelation from an artist who has reached art's mountaintop.
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Post-run, take in views of the Chugach Mountains and the Turnagain Arm from the new mountaintop bar.
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The house was perched on a mountaintop, so the breeze made it a welcome getaway for his family.
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Its mining is linked to countless tragedies, from mountaintop removal to the Elks River, W.Va. water contamination fiasco.
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We traveled to a mountaintop village in the Philippines to meet a tattoo artist with practically mythical status.
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The book is by Katori Hall ("The Mountaintop") with Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins, and Phyllida Lloyd directs.
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When you reach your mountaintop, I hope you hoot, holler or softly weep in whatever way you please.
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LOS ANGELES — Nobody can accuse Jordan Spieth or Jason Day of dawdling on his ascent to golf's mountaintop.
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The following photo in Ershov's series shows an aerial view of a mountaintop in Iceland shrouded in mist.
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Because if we've got 20 candidates in the field, 19 aren't going to make it to the mountaintop.
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Going to a mountaintop, commanding a large instrument, gathering her own data about the universe with her own hands?
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Grijalva noted that the mountaintop mining study appeared to be the only one halted by the Interior Department review.
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The renovation, called the Mountaintop Project, is an attempt to bring back her memory and those of other slaves.
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But this sultry invitation, with promises of mountaintop kisses and walking together in grassy fields, is much more romantic.
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Almost every year, torrential rainstorms trigger fatal mudslides and flooding in mountaintop neighborhoods in and around Rio de Janeiro.
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This isolated mountaintop location is host to the corroding remains of large communications dishes, the remains of nuclear deterrence.
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The car slowly winds its way so high along the mountaintop that the clouds hang nearly at arm's length.
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Gary Harrell, a retired Delta Force commander who was involved in the broader operation that included the mountaintop episode.
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Time after time, they have voted for mountaintop removal over mountains, opted for promises of jobs over clean water.
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Last month, Italy's Culture Ministry, which owns the mountaintop property, withdrew the lease, citing violations of various contractual obligations.
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The streets are quiet, and the air so clear that you can see the mountaintop observatories across the bay.
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"I came here figuratively to scream from the mountaintop," he told Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet in 2011.
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"November 2017 was like the mountaintop where people started to feel the possibility meets the reality," the operative said.
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The entry for Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop home, Monticello, notes that the third president owned as many as 200 slaves.
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Joe Pizarchik spent more than seven years working on a regulation to protect streams from mountaintop removal coal mining.
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A banner demanding "true universal suffrage" was hung on a different mountaintop on Tuesday morning, before being swiftly removed.
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"If we've got 22016 candidates in the field, 22016 aren't going to make it to the mountaintop," Perez said.
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In the classical model, a lone astronomer goes to a mountaintop and solemnly points a telescope at one predetermined object.
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Kanye West is back in his hood, strolling through Calabasas after seeking musical inspiration on the highest mountaintop in Wyoming.
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Witherspoon shared a video from their epic helicopter ride over the otherworldly landscape and documented her moment on the mountaintop.
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He proposed to her on a mountaintop during a breezy afternoon that was not at all friendly to Rachel's hairdo.
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But since the 1960s, the development of the mountaintop for astronomy has taken precedence over this view, again and again.
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Now he was the guy his first website made him out to be; he was already standing on the mountaintop.
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This mountaintop hotel and spa has featured on TV program "Ghost Hunters" and is known as "America's Most Haunted Hotel".
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You can't really blame Hall, whose earlier work (including "The Mountaintop" and "Our Lady of Kibeho") is complex and layered.
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A mountaintop monastery here, built by Benedictine monks in the sixth century, was destroyed by Allied bombing in February 1944.
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On another Chilean mountaintop, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will search for biosignatures in the atmospheres of rocky super-Earths.
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Mountaintop removal is a form of surface mining in which explosives are used to extract coal from mountaintops and ridgelines.
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In the country's western region, small mountaintop villages offer refuge from the conflict — but that safety comes at a cost.
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We see eight Valkyrie sisters, who arrive on their flying steeds, assemble at a mountaintop to greet one another giddily.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis the day after delivering his "Mountaintop" speech in support of striking sanitation workers.
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It is tempting to remember King's last sermon in Memphis as only a bright and glorious vision from the mountaintop.
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Dr. King said, the Lord allowed me to go to the mountaintop and to look over into the promised land.
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And we show you what life is like for a fire lookout on a lonely mountaintop in the Montana wilderness.
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In his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, he paralleled the mountaintop for Moses to those still climbing for equality.
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They said Tuesday that the rule would protect public health and water quality against the controversial mountaintop removal mining process.
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Among them are Apricale, a mountaintop settlement in Liguria, and Pisticci, a hamlet in the far south of the country.
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It updates a 1983 regulation aimed at protecting streams from the effects of mountaintop removal coal mining, particularly in Appalachia.
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Finally at the murder site, Gretchen allows herself a gory geek out in front of a bloody rock on a mountaintop.
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But already his plan to visit and give a speech atop the ancient mountaintop fortress of Masada has been scrapped. Why?
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Sanders calls for a ban on fracking, mountaintop removal coal mining, and imports and exports of coal, oil, and natural gas.
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We've obtained areal pics of the Hidden Hills site where Kylie's eyeing the mega-mansion that's being built on a mountaintop.
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Many of us have experienced how even humble fare, when paired with a knockout beachfront or mountaintop vista, can seem lavish.
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"Originally, I worried the study itself was a way to put off telling people that mountaintop mining was dangerous," he said.
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While the view from the mountaintop is stirring, there was no word on whether the guests were shaken by the incident.
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The avalanche struck the mountaintop Rigopiano hotel after four earthquakes affected the region on Wednesday, according to the New York Times.
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His demise came after a British force stormed his mountaintop fortress to free European diplomats, missionaries and adventurers he had jailed.
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Ending studies Interior's request to halt its study on the health risk of mountaintop removal represents a familiar pattern to critics.
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Before the state bought the property, the mountaintop in 1915 was the site of the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan.
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One study linked mountaintop mining to increased lung and kidney disease rates, as well as elevated death rates in surrounding communities.
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Colonel Milani also looked into footage captured by a Predator drone about 224 minutes after the SEALs had left the mountaintop.
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Guests have the option of overnighting at one of its 10 mountaintop yurts with meals included (from $775 including cat skiing).
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She is a former telescope systems specialist on Mauna Kea but now says development on the mountaintop has gone too far.
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Location is also important — a tiny home in a parking lot isn't as whimsical as a tiny home on a mountaintop.
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In the age of cheap natural gas and mountaintop removal mining, a coal town is not where you want to be.
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The luckiest eclipse viewers may have been people at Chile's La Silla Observatory, situated on a mountaintop in the Atacama Desert.
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While the mountaintop post office is certainly one of the more unique branches, the postal logo is ubiquitous throughout the country.
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They earn their high ranking in part by appearing so often in the wild, spread across valley meadows and mountaintop clearings.
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Sources tell TMZ, Kanye flew out of L.A. Wednesday for the secluded home he's rented in Wyoming ... literally on a mountaintop.
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The day before he was assassinated, Dr. King had a "buy black" message in his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
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I think of in the olden days we would sit atop the mountaintop and hurl forth our recipes and our news.
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There were no survivors among the 65 passengers and crew on the plane that plowed into a mountaintop in southwest Iran.
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His baritone voice rang from a loudspeaker nearby, the words of his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech echoing across the grounds.
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After eight years in the spotlight as the first couple, a mountaintop in Southern California seems like just the place to go.
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And in February, President Trump signed a repeal of a clean stream rule that raised the prospects of a mountaintop mining revival.
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Most coal jobs have disappeared because of automation, less labor-intensive techniques like mountaintop removal, and competition from cheaper, cleaner natural gas.
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This month, JPMorgan Chase and PNC Financial announced new policies restricting their activity supporting mountaintop removal, a particularly destructive coal mining process.
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That rule required coal miners to clean up the waste from mountaintop removal mining and prevent it from going into local waterways.
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A growing controversy Scientists estimate that mountaintop removal mining, a form of surface mining, has occurred on at least 500 Appalachian mountaintops.
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Trudging through thigh-deep snow, Chapman and the others fought back against al Qaeda fighters that had dug in on the mountaintop.
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The EPA has repealed restrictions on toxic waste from mountaintop-removal mining, which sends dangerous heavy metals tumbling into streams and rivers.
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Petty Officer Neil Roberts fell out of the helicopter and onto the mountaintop before the aircraft crash-landed lower in a valley.
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Not only can VR afford stunning mountaintop views at a fraction of the expense and exertion, it will also save precious time.
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He had fled their mountaintop community here in rural Honduras without a phone because no one in the family could afford one.
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"This is something higher-ups will decide," said Huang Xiaofeng, 217, a shopkeeper catering to pilgrims who visit a holy mountaintop cave.
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The album will also arrive alongside a documentary about the making of the album, titled "Mountaintop Sessions" and directed by C.K. Vollick.
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" John Lingan is the author of "Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk.
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Ms. Hall, a Memphis native, won an Olivier Award for her play "The Mountaintop," which was set the night before the Rev.
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The Trump administration has ordered researchers to stop work on an independent evaluation of potential health effects from mountaintop removal coal mining.
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When party presidential nominees return to the Senate after defeat, their stature is enhanced for having gotten so close to the mountaintop.
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On a recent day, he went snowboarding at a mountaintop resort built in the 1960s by the later-deposed shah of Iran.
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Sanders has called for a ban on fracking, mountaintop removal coal mining, and imports and exports of coal, oil, and natural gas.
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Even walking around a Pyrenean mountaintop in jeans, out of which he'd ironed every bit of ease, Macron projected a pressed urbanity.
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Instead of moving the giant boulders on the land, the founders of this mountaintop village in eastern Portugal built it around the rocks.
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Appalachian Voices, an environmental group, estimates that coal companies have buried over 2,000 miles of streams in the region through mountaintop removal mining.
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They went public with their relationship at this year's Met Gala, months before Foster popped the question on a mountaintop in Italy's Anacapri.
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The move follows the halt in August by the Interior Department of a science academy review of pollution deaths caused by mountaintop mining.
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BCHARRE, Lebanon (Reuters) - Shakira performed at the ancient cedars of Lebanon on Friday in a mountaintop concert in the land of her ancestors.
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Members will consider a CRA resolution against the Interior Department's Stream Protection Rule, which is designed to protect waterways from mountaintop removal mining.
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Not just the big masses of it accumulating in the Pacific, but with the tiny bits that are blowing into pristine mountaintop habitats.
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Financial services go up against the wellness industry in a fully binaristic duel: city versus mountaintop, suit versus white coat, aggression versus docility.
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Proposed, but not completed, clean-water regulations aimed at restricting mountaintop-removal mining for coal in West Virginia could be eased, he said.
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On the job, they guard the vast border between India and China, where the mountaintop temperature can drop to minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Some of the performances take place in eclectic, winter-themed venues, like the Arctic Disco, a mountaintop igloo with an open roof. snowbombing.
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"While we didn't reach the ultimate mountaintop, I think we moved the entire civic tech space forward," Brigade CEO Matt Mahan tells me.
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The National Mining Association called the NAS report "unnecessary" and said existing literature on mountaintop mining shows it poses no public health hazards.
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Andrew is loving life at the beginning of the hour, swimming naked at a mountaintop mansion with an ocean view, in La Jolla.
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She shows the wreckage of Mann's humanist mountaintop, starts echoes of the death camps that helped ruin it, the ovens and the bones.
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Today, I am completely devoted to my art and work, inspired by the spirits of the land on a mountaintop in southern California.
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The Interior Department in August ordered researchers to stop work on an independent evaluation of potential health effects from mountaintop removal coal mining.
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In both depictions, a man stuck on a mountaintop is being awkwardly hugged by a monster with a face like an animal skull.
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Environmentalists have long argued that mountaintop removal releases pollutants into water and air, causing cancer, birth defects, cardiovascular illnesses and more health concerns.
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The police also monitor the routes of tourists traveling to historic sites like the Roman ruins of the ancient mountaintop city of Dougga.
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Increased rates of cancer, birth defects, and chronic heart, lung, and kidney disease have all been correlated with living near mountaintop mining sites.
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In one of Scripture's most challenging passages, God asks Abraham to prove his loyalty by sacrificing his new son Isaac on a mountaintop.
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In the lobby there was an imposing black sculpture that could look like a bird or a fighter jet or a cloudy mountaintop.
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For example, Steckel said, if you live on a mountaintop in Utah, you won't be able to go to OneWeb's website and order service.
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In Furious 7, directed by James Wan, there's a mid-movie set piece in which cars are dropped onto an Azerbaijani mountaintop via parachute.
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Catherine and her family, along with the other survivors, were moved to a remote mountaintop in Rwanda, where a new camp was set up.
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They all look like they've marched up Mount Kilimanjaro only to discover there is no mountaintop, just some guy and a potential Instagram sponsorship.
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The lagoon is framed by steep granite mountains, lush forest and apartment blocks, and is overlooked by Corcovado, the Christ the Redeemer mountaintop statue.
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Interior Department officials canceled a major mountaintop removal mining study because they didn't think it would yield new findings, the agency's internal watchdog said.
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The administration says the rule, more than six years in the making, will protect coal country waterways from the controversial mountaintop-removal mining process.
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Adjacent to the mountaintop home is a fully-functional buffalo ranch that comes with two barns and a one-bedroom, one-bathroom caretaker's home.
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Hopscotching from country to country, it begins in the United States with scenes of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia and its destructive environmental effects.
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Democrats say those concerns are exaggerated and that the rule would protect public health and water quality against the controversial mountaintop removal mining process.
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"[Reinhardt] spent his incredible career screaming from the mountaintop about how badly our healthcare system is broken and needs fixing," Salo told Business Insider.
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Only Das's beloved Lhasa endures, the gleaming white walls of Potala still draped over their outcrop of rock like fresh snow upon a mountaintop.
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"Washing Monsters" shows an animal-skulled creature on a mountaintop clutching a human character who seems to be cleansing it, with consequent soap bubbles.
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The evening before the second march, the Nobel Peace Prize winner delivered his famous "I've Been to the Mountaintop" sermon at a local church.
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For Wurtz, self-knowledge is not found on a psychoanalyst's couch or a remote mountaintop, but in the things with which we surround ourselves.
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The GMT is being built by a consortium of universities in the United States and other countries at a mountaintop site called Las Campanas.
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JESSE GREEN I would call this an inflection season, rather than a mountaintop one: the start of something new as opposed to a culmination.
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Launch yourself off a mountaintop with just a few running steps, a harness fastened to your tandem paragliding instructor and perhaps a quick prayer.
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We said goodbye on a mountaintop, though only after Ms. Hagemann offered to let me stay with her any time I come to Zurich.
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At some stops, villagers came out to chat, curious about how our crew had managed to make our way up to their isolated mountaintop.
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This problem also applies to Appalachia, where mountaintop mining has stripped the surrounding land of value, and to other depressed parts of our country.
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YouTube user Paul "YosemiteBear62" Vasquez filmed and streamed the genuinely impressive sight of a full double-rainbow crowning the mountaintop beyond his front yard.
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According to Appalachian Voices, well over 500 mountains, 1,200 miles of streams and a million acres have been destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining.
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This same court rescinded the telescope's permit two-and-a-half years ago on procedural grounds, after protests had prevented construction on the mountaintop.
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Previous owners of the mammoth mountaintop include the Shah of Iran's sister and Merv Griffin ... but that was back when the land was undeveloped.
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A few weeks later, they were summoned back to Chapo's mountaintop hideout, where they told Chapo that their former associate was refusing requests to meet.
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The whole two hours were what you'd expect from a dude who spent most of his last tour perched on his own man-made mountaintop.
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The Buzludzha was built in 1981 under all-powerful Communist leader Todor Zhivkov, its mountaintop setting offering views across some of Bulgaria's most spectacular landscapes.
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Instead of a polished retrospective from the mountaintop, so to speak, I've drafted my own personal playbook of tested, real-time observations along the way.
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President Trump moved a speech planned for Israel's Masada, a mountaintop fortress, after being told he couldn't land his helicopter at the top, per Newsweek.
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The group didn't try to frame itself as being in opposition to mountaintop removal in general, instead focusing its efforts on the KD2 mine alone.
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He stripped to a hair shirt and allegedly walked barefoot through the snow on the way to a mountaintop castle where the pope was waiting.
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Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 93% (certified fresh)Synopsis: "On a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow."
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Odds for who will win the 116.63 championship enter the conversation, free agency rumors hum in the foreground, overshadowing celebratory cries from the sport's mountaintop.
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From creating memories in the outback to hiding away in a remote mountaintop lodge, one of these vacation ideas should be right for your relationship.
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Astronomers working at the mountaintop Keck Observatory in Hawaii have discovered an incredibly rare "fossil cloud" of pure hydrogen created minutes after the Big Bang.
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A little over a year ago, Jim Heckman was sermonizing from a mountaintop in Canada about his plan to save the publishing industry from Facebook.
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In West Virginia alone, 300,000 acres of forest — an area half the size of Rhode Island — have been damaged by mountaintop mining, by one estimate.
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"Beating him will get us out of the valley, but it will not get us to the mountaintop," Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey said.
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That night in Memphis, Dr. King gave the speech known for the declaration "I've been to the mountaintop," in which he spoke of his mortality.
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A new exhibit at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's palatial mountaintop plantation, is dedicated to Sally Hemings, the enslaved woman who bore children with the founding father.
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One, Red Onion State Prison, was a high-security facility patrolled by armed guards and built in a mountaintop crater on an abandoned coal mine.
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Last year, West Virginia officials asked the Obama administration to look into the health effects of mountaintop mining, a technique used to extract underlying coal.
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We even saw a mountaintop castle, in case in my jet-lagged state I momentarily thought we were headed for the Rockies or the Sierras.
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My legs were so tired and I was feeling comfortable in the Gamsmilch-Bar, a large mountaintop hut decorated with old wooden poles and skis.
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An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the agency conducting a study of mountaintop removal mining that was canceled by the Trump Administration.
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In August, the Office of Surface Mining stopped funding for a study into the potential health effects of people living near mountaintop removal mining operations.
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" They were well outnumbered by Bundy supporters like Elijah Corrigan, 38, who said he had ridden his horse from his ranch "up on the mountaintop.
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"We demand that the Mexican state cancel each and every one of the mining concessions in Wirikuta," said councilor Aukwe Mijarez during the mountaintop ceremony.
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Between beginning and end: A mountaintop twister coated in treacherous ice, momentum-breaking spills surrounding a track that doesn't look narrow, but soon feels it.
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Even if you aren't working with a five-star budget, it's worth considering booking that dreamy beachside resort or mountaintop eco hotel for just one night.
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When to 4KReserve 4K shots for when you really want to reproduce the scene, like taking a panning shot of the stunning view from the mountaintop.
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Mountaintop mining blasts dirt and rock off mountains to expose that coal, filling valleys below with up to hundreds of feet of refuse and mine tailings.
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In reality, studies of both air pollution and water pollution point to health dangers for anyone breathing near mountaintop mines or rubble-covered streams, she said.
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To reach the mountaintop I want to believe that Martin Luther King's dream really does matter, that my life matters, that all of our lives matter.
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While sad about the prospect, Goldman -- who was enjoying the view of Atlanta from the mountaintop -- said she understands why the carving may need to go.
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Trump signed a bill undoing the so-called Stream Protection Rule, an Obama-era regulation which aimed to curb environmental damage from mountaintop removal coal mining.
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He does not care about the long-term damage that a mountaintop mining operation can do to our drinking-water supplies and to our fishing habitats.
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Field Notes Deirdre Wall, an actress in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, was eight months pregnant when she was married on a New Hampshire mountaintop on June 25.
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Appalachian Voices, an environmental group, estimates that coal companies have buried over 21983,000 miles of streams in the region through mountaintop removal mining since the 1990s.
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These disparate but connected "landscapes" include a removed mountaintop converted into an airstrip for prison transport planes and a vendor who sells items to prison commissaries.
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Encamped on a remote mountaintop in an unnamed country, a cadre of teenage soldiers are keeping watch over an American hostage, referred to as the "doctor".
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He lands on a soft, bouncy bed on a mountaintop inhabited by a striking young woman named Ouilotta Hemogloben, and her rather severe mother (Margaret Dumont).
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In November 2015, for example, Morgan Stanley said it would reduce financing for projects using "mountaintop removal," in which mountains are dynamited to reveal coal seams.
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WASHINGTON — The Interior Department has ordered a halt to a scientific study begun under President Obama of the public health risks of mountaintop-removal coal mining.
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One 2010 review published in Science found elevated mortality rates, as well as increased incidence of lung cancer and kidney disease, in counties near mountaintop mining.
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Rice ratCreditCreditMileniusz Spanowicz/Wildlife Conservation Society Madidi National Park in Bolivia goes from lowland to mountaintop, from 600 feet to almost 20,000 feet above sea level.
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Mr. Kishi was also reported to have visited the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, a mountaintop shrine dedicated to the American dead in several wars.
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And side trips to places like the mountaintop village of Eze, and Monaco, known for its high-end casinos, big yachts and Grand Prix car race.
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If we really, really want something, we often spend a lot of time -- days, years -- fantasizing about how we'll react when we finally reach that mountaintop.
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"If you're on a mountaintop in a developing country where no one knows what a tasting menu is, that list is very important," Seidler told me.
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The riders attack rules like carbon dioxide limits for power plants, the water pollution jurisdiction rule and Interior's rule to protect streams from mountaintop removal mining.
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On the mountaintop just before the descent into the valley of Todos Santos, there is no running water—women fetch it from wells with plastic jugs.
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Saban's predecessors atop college football's mountaintop have run the gamut from everyman (Stoops) to buttoned-up (Tressel) to Shangri La (Carroll) to down-home Southern (Brown).
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" Here is what you need to know about the secret mountaintop meeting between Sean Penn and the drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as "El Chapo.
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But if you do your research and have an expert to guide you, document your experience — whether it's skydiving, reaching a mountaintop or floating in a pond.
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I think about how King, in that final speech, says that he has been to the mountaintop, really a continuation of his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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The turn to other energy forms — along with the rise of less labor-intensive mining techniques, like mountaintop removal mining — have winnowed the ranks of coal miners.
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DLGNCE and John Karel's GIFs evoke video game atmospheres descended from the Mushroom Kingdom, while Sahlooter's laid-back mountaintop La-Z-Cloud is the stuff of dreams.
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Regulators and environmentalists said it would help protect waterways from the effects of mountaintop mining pollution and prevent negative health impacts for people living in those areas.
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Each arrest has been in the name of one cause: protecting Appalachia from the impacts of coal mining, and, in particular, from the practice of mountaintop removal.
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In 2006, according to the United States Geological Survey, a nearly 15,900-foot mountaintop, 1.4 miles southeast of Mount Vinson, was named in his honor: Clinch Peak.
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At the end of the third season, Jimmy proposes to Gretchen on a mountaintop, but after she mentions the word "family," he gets spooked and drives away.
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Mr. Huston's performance, however competent, is no match compared with Heston's heaving, oratorical gravitas, which gave even casual remarks the ring of Scripture declaimed from a mountaintop.
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It was the first firefight for his six-man reconnaissance unit from SEAL Team 6, and it was outnumbered, outgunned and taking casualties on an Afghan mountaintop.
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It does sound like I'm coming down from the mountaintop with this revealed truth and I'm going to kindly take some time to share it with mortals.
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In front of him were 2,000 evangelical Christians — mostly a mix of black and white Southerners — who had come to the mountaintop to worship across racial barriers.
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"Are they going to have to go into the woods or up on a mountaintop or down to the docks in order just to take a drag?"
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As the leader of the World Health Organization team that visited China, Dr. Bruce Aylward feels he has been to the mountaintop — and has seen what's possible.
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But early risers can take the gondola up beforehand for the Fresh Tracks breakfast at Whistler's Roundhouse Lodge, a mountaintop gondola hub with cafeteria-style seating inside.
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Another, House Joint Resolution 38, nullified a regulation that would have required coal companies to make sure that waste from mountaintop mining was not polluting local waterways.
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Mountaintop removal is as dramatic as it sounds — a hillside is blasted with explosives and the remains are excavated — but the health consequences still aren't fully understood.
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At Victoria Peak, the ride to the mountaintop took hours because of long lines to buy a ticket, board the tram and reach the Sky Terrace 428.
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As dawn broke on a sacred mountaintop in northern Mexico, a group of indigenous pilgrims dragged a sacrificial calf into their stone circle and slit its throat.
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Beyond the theaters, Sun Valley Film Festival's experiential programming was just as robust as the cinematic slate, with attendees traveling via gondolas (complimentary champagne included) to mountaintop events.
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Beyond this coal-related rule, the administration has nixed a new rule protecting streams against mining pollution and paused a study on the dangers of mountaintop coal mining.
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Only about 0003% of US coal now comes from mountaintop mining, which grew popular after clean air regulations placed a premium on low-sulfur coal in the '90s.
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In 211.9, it had bought out the mountaintop removal mining company Massey Coal from under coal baron Don Blankenship (recently convicted of conspiracy to avoid mine safety standards).
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We cringed when fitness model Lindsay Phenix chopped off her hair in the blazing heat because we knew that she would soon end up on a frozen mountaintop.
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Being able to travel for work — and do things like shooting on a mountaintop in Utah — brings me to tears, because I never imagined myself behind the lens.
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Johnson's visit came on the 10th day of protests at the base of Mauna Kea to block construction from starting on the Thirty-Meter Telescope on the mountaintop.
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Contrary to the wishes of her parents and much of the show's fanbase, "Bachelorette" star/grand prize Hannah Brown interrupted Tyler Cameron's heartfelt proposal on a Grecian mountaintop.
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About 33,000 people from across central Appalachia attended the rally, held atop a mountaintop removal site and headlined by Ted Nugent, Hank Williams Jr., Sean Hannity, and others.
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The night before his assassination, at a local church, Dr. King delivered his ringing "I've been to the mountaintop" speech, in which he expressed premonitions of his death.
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They moved on to a scene in which Kong, having brought Ann to his mountaintop lair, wakes up from a nap and frantically stomps around looking for her.
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Holley often quotes Martin Luther King, Jr.,'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech, which King delivered to sanitation workers in Memphis the day before he was assassinated.
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Burg Hornberg is a mountaintop fortress surrounded by terraced vineyards, with a tower so high that surely, at some point, someone must have locked a princess in it.
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That has mostly been through repealing regulations from the Obama administration limiting carbon dioxide emissions, regulating mountaintop removal mining, extending the reach of federal water regulations and more.
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But if you buy into the idea that a cursed team needs to slay its dragon before they can finally climb the mountaintop, well, here's the Capitals' chance.
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Public Health Many Democrats giddy from their recent health policy successes are starting to reach enthusiastically for a mountaintop goal: establishing a single-payer system for all Americans.
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In what city did U.S. civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous "Mountaintop" speech on April 2, 1968, the night before he was assassinated?
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For example, one of the four major environmental reversals undid a rule that would have required coal companies to keep toxic debris from mountaintop mining out of waterways.
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A second of arc is about the size of a star as it appears to the eye under the best and calmest of conditions from a mountaintop observatory.
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An early Obama rule that Mr. Trump and Congress reversed would have required coal companies to make sure that waste from mountaintop mining was not polluting local waterways.
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But spare a thought for the Aragats Cosmic Ray Research Station, above, a mountaintop research station in Armenia that tracks exploding stars and the cosmic weather they produce.
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Police on Kauai have preliminary identifications for three of the seven people aboard Thursday&aposs helicopter tour that crashed on a mountaintop in a remote part of Hawaii.
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On May 1, Taliban fighters overwhelmed a mountaintop outpost overlooking the Kunar River, killing three Americans, two Latvians and three Afghan soldiers, and taking other Afghan soldiers prisoner.
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Slabinski set out to rescue a teammate who was injured after falling out of their helicopter after it came under attack as it attempted to land on the mountaintop.
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A Fight Over a Sacred Mountaintop Will Shape the Future of AstronomyFor years, it seemed as if the future of the Thirty Meter Telescope was writ in the stars.
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This encourages a frantic stampede to extract every fossil fuel through mountaintop removal, longwall mining, hydraulic fracturing, tar sands and tar shale extraction, and deep ocean and Arctic drilling.
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The attraction: "Just the idea of being able to wake up on a mountaintop and spend the day watching the clouds move and the light change," said Duffey, 42.
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Situated approximately 30 minutes outside the village of St Remy, the Abbey de Pierredon is located on a mountaintop aerie in middle of 600 acres of forest and scrubland.
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As the hero and heroine try to escape on a bike from a horrible mountaintop sanatorium full of nasty repressed desires, you can almost hear Freud shaking his fist.
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A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) followed the law in 2011 when it revoked a company's mountaintop removal mining permit in West Virginia.
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Environmental groups supported the rule as a measure to protect waterways from adverse impacts of mountaintop removal mining, but the coal industry said the regulation would kill mining jobs.
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Another case involved permits granted by the Army Corps of Engineers that allowed Mingo Logan Coal Company to dump mountaintop removal mining waste into three streams in West Virginia.
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Regulators and environmental groups in Appalachia have tangled with coal companies for decades over their mining practices, particularly mountaintop removal mining, which involves removing mountain summits to extract coal.
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He can scrap the use of carbon in federal decision-making, cancel health studies of mountaintop removal mining, and make sure the words "energy dominance" appear on every document.
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Before the prayer service on the mountaintop, a preacher, Jonathan Tremaine Thomas, was at its base, rallying the mixed-race crowd that was preparing to hike to the top.
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Internet and cellphone service is spotty, the two roads to the outside world are snowed in every winter, and Buddhist monasteries compete with military outposts for prime mountaintop locations.
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A spokeswoman for the TMT collaboration said nothing would happen right away on the mountaintop, and that it would take time to coordinate with the mayor and the state.
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Along those lines but available to us all without the days-long walk through a desert or blinding climb to a mountaintop: a float in a sensory deprivation tank.
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So we called up Mike Carmon, senior meteorologist at the mountaintop observatory, and interviewed him over the car's Bluetooth as I drove and Jess took notes on her laptop.
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The newly opened space at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's palatial mountaintop plantation, is presented as the living quarters of Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman who bore the founding father's children.
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To illustrate the point, the magazine's cover featured a picture of Rio de Janeiro's "Christ the Redeemer" statue taking off from its mountaintop as if it were a rocket.
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One photograph in the exhibition, in particular, captures her free spirit: Taken in or around 1929, it shows Perriand standing topless, arms raised, on a mountaintop in Sestriere, Italy.
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Low literacy rates and a lack of internet coverage in the mountaintop villages mean radio is the main source of information - and a vital tool to combat human trafficking.
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The Stream Protection Rule from the Interior Department puts new limits and standards on how coal mining companies, both through mountaintop removal and other means, protects and restores streams.
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Gerard Robinson: The path to the mountaintop isn't always straight Fifty years ago, this week, America lost a prophetic voice to a gun shot in the city of Memphis.
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In 1910, the National Guard clear-cut a mountaintop in Rockland County for the purpose of establishing the " Finest Rifle Range in World ," as a Times headline put it.
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This year, officers from a feared Police Mobile Brigade Corps, armed with assault rifles, climbed through dense jungle to shut down the mountaintop camps of dozens of outlaw miners.
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Sanders said his plan would create 21.5 million jobs in the transition away from fossil fuels despite imposing a ban on energy extraction, including fracking and mountaintop coal mining.
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The OSM has since adopted the administration's deregulatory approach for the energy industry, including ending an Obama administration initiative to research the health effects of mountaintop removal coal mining.
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After another hour of scenic equine touring, it was time for lunch at the finca, a simple farmhouse near the mountaintop with white stucco walls and dandy blue trim.
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So, the first things to go in his own 'scopes were the assumed pronouns and exclusively heteronormative predictions: "I don't talk about marriage as the only relationship mountaintop," he says.
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"I'm born and raised in Southern California, close to Malibu, so I would love to get married at a vineyard or mountaintop back home," McGrady said of her dream location.
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An Instagram star known as the "Bikini Hiker"—who was famous for her bikini-clad mountaintop photos—froze to death after falling down a 65-foot ravine earlier this week.
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However, there is an even more powerful message to be seen and experienced as the Baton passes from hand to hand, from seashore to mountaintop, through cities, towns and villages.
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In 2012, Marilyn Mullens, Vivian Stockman, and other women took to the steps of the West Virginia state capitol to shave their heads in protest of mountaintop removal coal-mining.
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But a visitor in 1809, the year he returned to his mountaintop Virginia refuge for good after the presidency, noticed that the doors to his inner sanctum were always locked.
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One photograph online showed fog and mist enveloping the mountain, and others showed many elderly tourists and women and children gathered in a cave near the mountaintop cable car station.
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Their empire ran up and down the spine of the Andes, with a network of roads, terraced farms and breathtaking mountaintop outposts stretching the same distance as Stockholm to Cairo.
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For more than 14 hours, Slabinski and his team defended their position and fought against enemies until the mountaintop was secured and the team could be extracted, the Navy said.
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In its latest annual corporate responsibility report, Deutsche Bank said it was phasing out financing for projects that employ so-called mountaintop removal mining, which environmentalists say is particularly harmful.
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In parts of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia, mining companies often get at underground coal seams by blowing up the tops of mountains — a process known as mountaintop removal mining.
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No, Demetrious Johnson's come-to-Jesus moment didn't come in the quiet of the post-fight locker room or at home with his wife or on a mountaintop in India.
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Eleven were later found dead in a circle on a mountaintop, each with a bullet hole to the head in what South Korean investigators suspected to be executions and suicides.
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Gardner also supports the practice of mountaintop removal, a form of surface mining at the top of a mountain or ridgeline that environmentalists say harms the landscape and water supply.
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WILMINGTON, Vt. — Just after sundown on a Thursday in early December, Chris Harrison — host of "The Bachelor" and its spinoffs — stood in a mountaintop lodge in this Vermont ski town.
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This happened despite rising, not falling, coal production, mainly reflecting the replacement of old-fashioned pick-and-shovel mining with strip-mining and mountaintop removal, which require many fewer workers.
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Joe Manchin III of West Virginia in the Democratic primary for the Senate, after the death of Robert C. Byrd, to promote his campaign against mountaintop removal by coal companies.
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No one expected him to haul the Lakers (31-39) to the mountaintop — the roster was poorly constructed from the start — but the level of dysfunction has been fairly shocking.
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Landing for a stopover on the island of the Cyclopes, Odysseus confesses he's at a loss to understand this mountaintop-dwelling race of one-eyed savages: They don't fear the gods!
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Other footage showed helicopters firing what appeared to be live missiles at a mountaintop target, jeeps mounted with machineguns subjected to simulated ambushes, and officers practicing riot control with police dogs.
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The hollowing out of coal country reflected new technologies, like mountaintop removal, which require few workers, plus competition from other energy sources, especially natural gas but increasingly wind and solar power.
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López said that a week after the escape, he came to visit Chapo, who was relaxing at a palatial house on a mountaintop that overlooks La Tuna and the surrounding valley.
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Mill Valley Music, it turns out, is a record shop that was now two hours and ten minutes away, just outside of San Francisco—not on a mountaintop in Santa Cruz.
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And you had the audacity to cancel a study into the health risks of people living near mountaintop-removal coal mines after rescinding a rule that would have protected their health.
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But a couple hours' drive down the road and you'll arrive at the mountaintop mansion of former coal baron and Senate candidate Don Blankenship, complete with helipad and private water line.
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I'm writing from a mountaintop in Italy, among the detritus of the Cold War arms race — a decommissioned military base that once was one of NATO's "ACE-High" communications relay sites.
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These days, a vast majority of people disgorged from a fleet of buses or 10-seat Mercedes vans to hike the last short stretches to the mountaintop are Chinese, she said.
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Deutsche Bank had said that it would no longer finance so-called mountaintop removal projects, which involve extracting coal from the surface of mountains, often leaving large gashes in the landscape.
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Interior's stream protection rule for mountaintop removal mining was repealed by Congress, and the agency has taken action on its own to stop Obama's pause on coal mining on federal land.
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"I got to looking around, when all this mountaintop removal and strip mining and tearing up of our beautiful mountains was going on, and I started praying about it," he said.
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According to both residents and the low-level local government employee I spoke with on the mountaintop, in a single night of chopping, smugglers can make up to 1,000 TND ($453).
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They toured a traditional small mountaintop operation using one yeast strain, local water, specially grown rice and its own koji, a rice mold that is a key ingredient for brewing sake.
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This anniversary year should be a time of commemoration and celebration, reflection — and action — on how far we have come and how far we must still travel to reach the mountaintop.
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On Cape Foulweather, he finds denuded slopes, vanished biodiversity, absent native Alsea people, a slew of invasive plants — not to mention the appearance of a cellphone tower protruding from a mountaintop.
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But on the mountaintop of the world's beautiful game, which is to say many thousands of miles from the Triangle-obsessed Knicks team president, this is what the league looks like.
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Mountaintop removal, which has occurred on at least 500 Appalachian mountains, has clogged streams and waterways with heavy metals such as selenium and manganese, which can be toxic in high concentrations.
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Jackson recalled the power of King's darkly prescient "I've Been to the Mountaintop Speech," the sound of the gunshot and the wound that always reopens when he travels back to Memphis.
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Michael Hendryx, an Indiana University health science professor, told House lawmakers in 2015 that his studies have linked mountaintop removal to increased lung cancer, heart and kidney disease, and other ailments.
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After an outbreak of violence during a later visit, he nearly chose not to return — but he did and delivered his heralded "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech on April 3.
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The sound heralded the pageantry that was moments away, when nearly 70 people would ascend the stairs of Thomas Jefferson's mountaintop plantation in one of the country's largest outdoor naturalization ceremonies.
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For more than two weeks, rescuers attempted to find other entry points; they considered drilling through the mountaintop into the roof of the cavern where the group was believed to be.
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In parts of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Virginia, for instance, mining companies often get at underground coal seams by blowing up the tops of mountains — a process known as mountaintop removal mining.
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Related: Magnificent Drone Film Takes You to a Mountaintop in New Zealand A Rainstorm Hits LA in This Stunning HD Timelapse This Timelapse Is Like a Visual National Anthem for the Netherlands
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Count one more thing buried under the rubble of mountaintop coal mining — a high-profile study of its dangers, halted this summer by the Trump administration and now apparently in permanent limbo.
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In Stay With Me, Yejide's childlessness warps to a calamity plaguing her entire community, earning her the invasive "help" of everyone from ecstatic mountaintop mystics to a zealously cruel mother-in-law.
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"It&aposs still, in my opinion and the opinion of a lot of folks in the Forest Service, better to have a person on a mountaintop who can give you a description."
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Apple's latest promotional video for the iPhone XS, released last September, includes a stunning scene: a massive avalanche storming down a mountaintop, enveloping everything below in an opaque cloud of white snow.
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An ingrained thriftiness marked Blankenship's tenure at Massey, where his relentless quest to lower costs led him to embrace mountaintop removal mining and push safety and environmental rules to their breaking points.
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" In making the announcement, the White House said Slabinski guided a reconnaissance team to a snowy mountaintop "in support of a major coalition offensive against Al-Qaida forces in the valley below.
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She said she believed that if the UWLX became a profitable, long-lasting league, she most likely would not be around to see the mountaintop, but Murphy is at peace with that.
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After an initial flag raising, he was responsible for bringing the second, larger flag to the mountaintop, which is the flag depicted in the photo, and returning the first flag for safekeeping.
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Most coal mining, especially mountaintop removal mining, is now done by machines, so it would be hard to bring back the thousands of jobs that have been lost as automation takes hold.
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One page might contain mountaintop epiphanies, off-trail discoveries, weather and trail conditions, speculations about whether a bickering couple would survive the trail ahead and whimsical evaluations of the previous night's snoring.
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They are not a substitute for either strong culture or stronger management, but when you have those fundamentals in place, this system, all the time, will take your team to the mountaintop.
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The most popular trekking route is the famous Inca Trail, which takes visitors up a winding set of ancient stone stairs, past Incan ruins, and into the mountaintop citadel of Machu Picchu.
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So when President Trump arrives in this snowy, mountaintop resort where financial titans mingle with heads of state in an annual saturnalia of capitalism, it may feel like a moment of vindication.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech, and the Lorraine Motel, the site of his assassination, now expanded into the popular National Civil Rights Museum.
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In June, Le Grand Bellevue in Gstaad, Switzerland, will introduce Wild Wellness, a four-night retreat with "wild swimming" in Alpine lakes, mountain biking, trail running, mountaintop heli-yoga and food foraging.
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Another suspect, Mohammed Aalla, 27, worked as a waiter in a mountaintop restaurant in the hamlet of Ventola, where he served wine and alcohol along with the other waiters, his employer said.
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The Department of the Interior rebuked a National Park Service employee for scientifically accurate tweets about climate change and canceled studies looking into the safety of offshore drilling and mountaintop removal mining.
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In 140, Interior officials canceled a $2124 million study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the health risks of "mountaintop removal" coal mining in places like West Virginia.
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The first stop for our group, which included about a dozen bipartisan members of Congress, was the Mason Temple, where King delivered his famous "mountaintop" speech the night before he was killed.
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Quite a number of observatories in far-flung places — for instance, on a mountain ridge in Hawaii or high on a Chilean mountaintop — have upright shapes loosely similar to those of McElheny's objects.
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Spending time with him at his mountaintop temple, overlooking rolling green hills, we realized that our understanding of Facebook's role in societies with weak institutions went far beyond magnifying good and bad alike.
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"I want to yell from the highest mountaintop about everything that goes on with us because I'm so happy and excited to be with a person as kind as Pepe is," said Longoria.
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The North Carolina mountaintop that Scotty McCreery chose as the site for his recent marriage proposal turns out to have a special history for the couple — thanks to a misadventure that McCreery caused.
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The research project was meant to examine potential health impacts on people who live near mountaintop removal, a coal-mining process in which large volumes of earth are moved to get to coal.
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Once on the mountaintop, many South Koreans are moved to display their national flag, chanting hurrahs with arms raised, and singing their national anthem — raising the hackles of North Korean border guards nearby.
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Already William Matthews had whipped everyone up with a story about the prophet Elijah calling God's fire down on the mountaintop, how he challenged King Ahab and Jezebel and the prophets of Baal.
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"If you have someone in your field who inspires you to learn and understand how they got to where they are today," Wessel says, "it helps you create that mountaintop of your own."
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Dr. J doesn't think the baby Philadelphia 76ers have to wait to get to the top of the NBA mountaintop ... telling TMZ Sports he thinks the team can win it all THIS SEASON.
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Must not be as crazy as I am CARAMANICA Meza sings from the mountaintop and the riverbed on "Kallfu," which this vocalist, guitarist and composer wrote after visiting Patagonia, in her native Chile.
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For the moment, though, it is nothing more than a construction project on a mountaintop, as well as several enormous mirrors in varying stages of production at the University of Arizona's mirror lab.
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"Mountaintop removal mining has been shown to cause lung cancer, heart disease and other medical problems," said Representative Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources.
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Behind the port town, the working-class quarters are squalid and overcrowded, and in the famous ancient monastery — "like a cruise ship moored on a mountaintop" — the monks are as corrupt as anyone.
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Boockvar also said he "will scream from some mountaintop ... that I was dead wrong" if the Fed pulls off its balance-sheet unwinding along with raising rates and the stock market keeps rising.
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He's the definition of a true talent: Dre feels like God placed him here to make music, and no matter what forces are aligned against him, he always ends up on the mountaintop.
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Mr. Weintraub said last week that without Mr. DiNardo's cooperation, Jimi Taro Patrick, 19, who was buried a half-mile from the others on a wooded mountaintop, would not have been easily found.
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Credit...Julia Rendleman for The New York Times GRUNDY, Va. — Jay Rife surveys the landscape — hundreds of flat, grassy acres reclaimed from a spent mountaintop mine once operated by the Paramont Coal Company.
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But you also add to the world, reconfiguring it to your needs and wants: a small shelter to see you through the first night; later, a mountaintop fortress just to make a statement.
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A helicopter that was set to tour the rugged Na Pali Coast, the picturesque and remote northern shoreline of Kauai that was featured in the film "Jurassic Park," crashed on a mountaintop Thursday.
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But instead of letting thousands of hours of breathtaking footage go to waste, the creators of Planet Earth II have re-purposed hundreds of breathtaking mountaintop shots into this 10-hour-long relaxation tool.
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The result, without the dramatic music and slippy-slidey sounds we'd expect in such a movie, made the daring mountaintop rescue shown on screen sound like a lazy conversation between some particularly grunty friends.
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The science academy said that it still hoped to restart the mountaintop mining safety study, and that private donors had come forward who may allow that effort, which is already half completed, to continue.
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As Heidi Klum might say: In fashion, one day you're in, the next day you're Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller), living like a hermit on a snowy mountaintop waiting for Billy Zane to drop by.
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Mr Gursky treats things like stock-exchanges, skyscrapers, a Formula One racing track, the interior of a Prada shop and an Amazon warehouse with the same reverence as a sweeping vista from a mountaintop.
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The mountaintop and what occurs there has played a central role in the mythologies of civilizations gone by, and these stories speak volumes about how the people telling them interpreted the world around them.
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The thing about mountaintop removal is that though it produces ugly scars on the landscape, and leaves behind an unfathomable number of toxic pollutants, these scars are generally out in the middle of nowhere.
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The Interior Department has ordered the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to stop working on a study focused on the health risks of living near mountaintop coal mining sites in Central Appalachia.
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Grassroots campaigns have pushed major banks to adopt policies against funding things ranging from slave labor to mountaintop removal coal mining, with significant declines in the financial flows to those industries as a result.
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Both Murray and his company have fought nearly every federal law and regulation affecting the coal industry, including those to limit acid rain, mercury, greenhouse gases and harm to streams from mountaintop removal mining.
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Mauna Kea is considered "ceded land" that belonged to the Hawaiian kingdom, and some Hawaiians have contended that the spate of telescope construction on the volcano's mountaintop has interfered with cultural and religious practices.
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Studio KO presented a rendering based on the Ismaili-era Alamut fortress in Persia, a mountaintop citadel where it's claimed that 11th-century soldiers once smoked hashish in hopes of gaining glimpses of heaven.
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There are many churches in the city and region worth visiting, including several mountaintop modernist masterpieces by the acclaimed contemporary Ticinese architect Mario Botta that would merit a full-day pilgrimage into the countryside.
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I heard his "I Have a Dream" speech and his "Mountaintop" speech, but I feel like I need to get in more, see how he felt, what made him want to encourage more people.
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Earlier this year, Mr. Whitney had some good and bad news for Governor Ducey about the current fire season: After a snowy winter, the mountaintop forests were moist and green, likely safe from burning.
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"NASA drew particular attention to Australia&aposs neighbor New Zealand, saying: "The smoke is having a dramatic impact on New Zealand, causing severe air quality issues across the county and visibly darkening mountaintop snow.
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Moreover, she has single-handedly kept an ancient tradition alive, and in the process transformed this remote mountaintop village into a mecca for tourists seeking adventure and a piece of history under their skin.
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If you want to dispel the notion that the ultrarich sit on a mountaintop and conspire to rig the capitalist system for themselves, maybe you shouldn't call your group the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.
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I had that sobering math in mind last week when I learned that Congress had voted to overturn the Stream Protection Rule, designed to protect streams from the devastating effects of mountaintop removal mining.
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Most coal mining, especially mountaintop removal mining, is done by machines, so it would be hard to bring back the thousands of jobs that have been lost as coal becomes less and less profitable.
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Aghogho Evuarherhe was part of the group that examined "The Land of the Free," a 1900 piece by William Gilbert Gaul that depicts a Sioux woman who has hiked to a mountaintop to mourn.
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Coal and industry groups have been looking for a way to roll back the rule requiring coal firms to clean up waste from mountaintop removal mining and prevent it from going into local waterways.
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Here, the couple smiles for the cameras as they take a chairlift up to the mountaintop for a lunch break during a campaign visit to Bagneres-de-Bigorre, in the Pyrenees in Southwestern France.
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While coal-fired power plants have been closing with the rise of cheap natural gas, the marketplace could easily shift back, and watchful environmentalists report that companies continue to apply for permits for mountaintop operations.
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"At least then I was on a mountaintop and would then have an excuse of falling flat on my face, but no, I didn't actually have any injuries shooting [Game of Thrones] — luckily," she added.
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I tested a few different bits of content on the 360, including a roller coaster ride through the ocean, some 360-degree photos from a mountaintop, and footage from a cafeteria full of dancing tweens.
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TMZ reports that he is at a mountaintop getaway, which sounds ideal for a guy trying to get some clarity away from the constant camera crews and Snapchat filters invading his family home in California.
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FUJI, JAPAN Fuji Rock Festival, July 22-24 Sigur Ros, Beck and the Red Hot Chili Peppers will play headline concerts at this three-day festival, set in a mountaintop ski resort in central Japan.
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So at the last moment, with encouragement from her children, Stéphanie offered Baby and Nepal a royal reprieve and a place to live — in her brother's backyard — on a mountaintop above the Principality of Monaco.
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Instead, the station was on an oceanside mountaintop flanked on three sides by towering cliffs, meaning any approaching bear would be hidden until it crested a ridge at the dangerous proximity of seventy-five yards.
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And, of course, to photograph a black hole, you need at least several dozen people with the right expertise to commit to years of grueling, frustrating work involving long, uncomfortable sojourns at remote mountaintop observatories.
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Mr. Trump will bring his protectionist, "America First" message to "the snowy, mountaintop resort where financial titans mingle with heads of state in an annual saturnalia of capitalism," as our White House correspondent puts it.
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However, locating the proper equipment and figuring out how to transport it to the rugged mountaintop has proved difficult, as did tracking down a drilling rig and power generator that could be airlifted by helicopter.
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A pair of rustic-chic mountaintop yurts now hosts events through the Summit Series, invitation-only, socially conscious conferences that resemble a hybrid between Allen and Co.'s annual Sun Valley gatherings and Burning Man.
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But Silicon Valley truly believed its own myths — that tech leaders had arrived from the mountaintop to deliver the gleaming devices and magical software that would transform humanity, and that they would never be evil.
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We got the rapper Tuesday leaving Equinox in L.A. ... he's all for Kanye's musical mountaintop retreat in Wyoming, telling our guy he's done the same type of thing in the past to find his own mojo.
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After Lima returned home to collect her kids from their grandmother, Costa drove me to Igreja da Penha, a mountaintop Catholic church at the top of several hundred stairs carved out of the mountain's original stone.
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Business intelligence is tricky, time-consuming, and historically has required some genius analyst crunching numbers while lay-people for whom datasets and spreadsheets are the devil incarnate wait around for a message from the data mountaintop.
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Young recently debuted *Mountaintop*, a full-length documentary about the making of *Colorado*, screening in theaters for one night only (October 22) and presumably making it eventually to a certain artist-owned streaming service/archive site.
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"Mountaintop removal mining has been shown to cause lung cancer, heart disease, and other medical problems," Representative Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources, told the New York Times.
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At first blush it may seem counterintuitive to elevate this speech above the watershed "I Have a Dream" speech delivered four years earlier, or the "Mountaintop" speech he would give on the eve of his death.
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Finalized with barely more than a month left in Obama's presidency, the Interior Department's Stream Protection Rule aims to prevent or mitigate harm to streams and other waterways from mountaintop removal mining, among other mining practices.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Emergency teams have recovered the flight recorders of a plane that crashed into a mountaintop in southwest Iran two weeks ago, killing all 66 passengers and crew, state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.
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There was a report that we were disagreeing about aviation that was actually not true, so we definitely had some differences in what we thought the mountaintop was but it wasn't nearly what was played up.
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I decided I'd have to go cloakless for the rest of my tests, but I'm keeping the cloak on hand in case I ever I need to seek wisdom from someone while sitting on a mountaintop.
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Both Koreas implemented some steps last year, halting major military drills, setting a no-fly zone around the border and removing landmines and guard posts within the DMZ, including the mountaintop watchtower above the "peace trail".
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In one, a scheduled trip to Masada, where Mr. Trump wanted to deliver a speech at the Roman-era mountaintop retreat that stands as a symbol of Israel's unwillingness to surrender, was called off on Tuesday.
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The Brazilian movie, based on a popular novel by Marta Batalha and directed by Karim Aïnouz, begins with two sisters sitting on a mountaintop; beyond them, you can see Rio de Janeiro's Christ the Redeemer statue.
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It's a new era and you don't want to be just skipping along the independence trail when you could be right up there on the mountaintop with your foot on the rest of the world's throat.
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At a mountaintop restaurant, Kushner — who saw the event as an opportunity to address a group of establishment-aligned donors who weren't fully on board with Trump's 2016 campaign — spoke on a range of policy issues.
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Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),* federal agencies are required to fully consider and disclose the environmental consequences of any agency action—like, say, building a prison over a mountaintop coal mine—before taking it.
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Until then, I had been that harmless American expat who huffed up the streets of our South Indian mountaintop bazaar with an overstuffed pack of groceries on my back and a baby tied to my front.
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These days I hear my clients use nearly the exact same language I did back then to describe a sexual climax when they were pre-orgasmic, never quite reaching the mountaintop and falling off into bliss.
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Benjamin Harnwell, director of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute based in a mountaintop monastery not far from Rome, told Reuters Bannon had been helping to build up the institute for about half of its eight-year life.
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We've all seen the ads and photos of hikers (typically rail-thin women) who hit the trails in trendy workout gear and somehow manage to reach the mountaintop without sweating off their makeup or mussing their hair.
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Along the way, they frolicked in the fake snow, communed with puppies, piglets and baby goats, and had their photos snapped on a 2,500-square-foot sound stage, painstakingly decked out to resemble a South Korean mountaintop.
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" Another fear outside of a person's control, Smith writes: "Yes, tragedy comes, and nothing I say will ever diminish its magnitude, but even more powerful is the experience of restoration — the mountaintop after the experience of tragedy.
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By a vote of 54-45, the Senate approved a resolution already passed in the House of Representatives to kill the rule aimed at keeping pollutants out of streams in areas near mountaintop removal coal-mining sites.
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During his nearly 30-year stint at Massey, Blankenship broke a violent labor strike, devoured competitors, bought a state court of appeals seat, normalized the use of mountaintop removal mining, and regularly flouted environmental and workplace standards.
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The Trump approach is a radical rejection of virtually every reform of public land law in the past 100 years, and the decision to abruptly halt the study of mountaintop removal mining is but the latest example.
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As we saw in last year's NBA Finals, so long as James is still able to dominate in the way he does, even a roster of misfit toys can get Cleveland somewhere awfully close to the mountaintop.
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We also spoke to people like Chino, who entrust people like Daniel to get them over the border, and we flew over mountaintop smuggling outposts with federal agents on lookout for anything and anyone coming over illegally.
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The Spaniard, who is retiring from cycling after La Vuelta, burst free of the breakaway group at the start of the final climb in the short, yet punishing, 117.5km stage, the last mountaintop finish of the contest.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday named a coal industry consultant and strong supporter of the controversial practice of mountaintop mining to head up a U.S. Interior Department agency that oversees mining operations and environmental cleanups.
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The plainest suit and the palest jacket had Major League Baseball insignia, just because; a ruby sweater with sleeves that looked like enormous, fuzzy dust mops had "Paramount Pictures," with the iconic mountaintop image, across its chest.
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The frightening, near-fatal New York episode later became a point of inspiration in Dr. King's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" address, which he delivered on April 230, 28, in Memphis, the day before he was assassinated.
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"That torch is now in our hands," Mr. Trump said within the first few minutes of his speech, echoing, if not entirely approaching, the wispy mountaintop oratory of more polished predecessors like Mr. Obama and Mr. Reagan.
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Powder Mountain also offers weekly Tuesday community dinners at its mountaintop Skylodge ($50 per person) and, on Thursdays, "Pizza and Pints" ($20 for unlimited food; alcohol not included) at a lodge the resort owns in the valley.
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The more recent decline in Appalachian coal employment started in the 1980s during the administration of Ronald Reagan because of the role that automation and mechanization played in replacing miners with machines, especially in mountaintop removal mining.
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The study was a key element in the fight over mountaintop removal, a form of surface coal mining that involves removing as much as 400 vertical feet of a mountain and dumping the waste rock into nearby valleys.
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"I thought he was cocky, aloof and full of himself," said Mr. Veeder, who spent much of his boyhood in Greene County, in upstate New York, chopping wood, clearing fields and helping his father build their mountaintop home.
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One of our most-read stories this weekend was about John Chapman, above, an Air Force technical sergeant whose Navy SEAL unit left him on an Afghan mountaintop during an intense firefight in 2002, thinking he was dead.
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Two years ago, this mountaintop was the scene of a cosmic traffic jam: honking horns, vans and trucks full of astronomers, V.I.P.s, journalists, businesspeople, politicians, protesters and police — all snarled at a roadblock just short of the summit.
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When it comes to spiritual matters, when the day comes that I'm no longer confused — when I'm sure that there's only one right way to get to that mountaintop — that will be the day I know I'm wrong.
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And which of the men in her life — Eric (Frederick Weller), her con-man boyfriend; Joel (Garrett Hedlund), the striving artist living in her barn; or one of the scheming high-rollers on her mountaintop — did the deed?
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A dissolute literato named Farewell justifies Urrutia's sellout by telling him the tale of an Austro-Hungarian shoemaker who wasted his life attempting to erect a mountaintop monument to every single hero of the past, present and future.
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Read more: Startups are betting that letting people work from home, an RV, or a New Zealand mountaintop will lure top talent away from Silicon ValleyWorking remotely requires setting boundaries and respecting the ones that others set, too.
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Delve further into the past at the Forte Tre Sassi (€7), a mountaintop museum in a disused fort that examines the hardships that World War I soldiers faced, and the fierce battles fought around the surrounding mountain passes.
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The other tourists had gone and I was alone on a freezing cold mountaintop across the world from a life I'd left behind almost a year ago, overlooking what could have been Mars, and I felt at home.
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The Vermont independent would also cut off billions in subsidies to fossil fuel companies and impose bans on extractive practices, including fracking and mountaintop coal mining, while halting the import and export of coal, oil and natural gas.
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And yet I did not need much persuading when a friend suggested that I join him for a trek — alongside thousands of other people — to the mountaintop basilica that holds the shrine of Our Lady of the Cabeza.
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In the Book of Genesis, we recall the story of Abraham and his son Isaac: God instructed Abraham to take his young son to the Valley of Moriah to be offered as a burnt sacrifice on a mountaintop.
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Kennedy's speech, like Dr. King's just the night before — where he said, "We've got some difficult days ahead" and "But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop" — was overlooked at the time.
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It is my hope that during this forum, the candidates express their desire to implement policies that will make it easier for everyone to reach the mountaintop, to touch the sky and feel the bright glow of freedom.
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Between runs, we sipped home-brewed genepi, an herbal liqueur made from high-alpine flowers, and were serenaded by a dishwasher who emerged from the kitchen at Chalet 3200, the mountaintop eatery, and began jamming on a saxophone.
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The Congressional Review Act (CRA) challenge passed by the Senate undoes the Interior Department's Stream Protection Rule, a regulation requiring coal firms to clean up waste from mountaintop removal mining and prevent it from going into local waterways.
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As soon as next month, the Republican-led Congress may pass legislation undoing Mr. Obama's regulations on the practice of mountaintop-removal coal mining and on leaks of planet-warming methane emissions from oil and gas drilling rigs.
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When I think of Afghanistan, two things spring to mind: American soldiers standing watch over lonely mountaintop outposts, and twin-rotored Chinook helicopters rising out of dusty valleys, hauling with them the tools and warriors of modern combat.
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The cowboys were in the midst of a three-day pilgrimage last month through the central highlands of Guanajuato, an 84-mile trip to the mountaintop statue of Christ the King, among the tallest and most sacred in Mexico.
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In fact, mountaintop removal is moving closer to communities as the industry searches out ever-dwindling coal seams, and residents continue to suffer from a multitude of health effects related to mining pollution, not to mention dire economic conditions.
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An "essential" factor in Guzman's eventual arrest was the drug lord's meeting with Hollywood star Sean Penn in Guzman's remote mountaintop hideout in the Mexican state of Durango in early October, Mexico's attorney general Arely Gomez said on Monday.
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Adaptation was written during a summertime retreat in the Alps—the duo's spindly techno could easily soundtrack a slow ski descent from an mountaintop, as well as it could keep a club moving in the early pre-dawn hours.
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The site is sacred ground to native Hawaiians, which has led to clashes between protesting locals and scientists hoping to take advantage of the mountaintop to build the bigger and better stargazing instruments, like the upcoming Thirty Meter Telescope.
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For the first time, the affluent upper-class people who paid for the pleasure of living along the well-manicured ridgelines overlooking the Kanawha River and adjacent Charleston skyline were feeling the burn of being a mountaintop removal community.
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In fact, after reading one particular "Modern Love" installment, I very nearly booked a trip to Bhutan to climb my way to a faraway mountaintop temple that allegedly granted every unfulfilled wish for a baby that was brought there.
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Christian evangelist and ordained minister Billy Graham, the influential Baptist preacher who shared a close friendship with Queen Elizabeth II and provided spiritual counsel to numerous U.S. presidents, died Wednesday morning at his mountaintop home in Montreat, North Carolina.
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It would have protected 6,000 miles of streams, and the fish that live in them, from mountaintop removal mining by requiring companies to avoid mining practices that permanently pollute streams or destroy drinking water sources with toxic heavy metals.
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Senators voted 28500-6900 to approve a Congressional Review Act resolution gutting the Interior Department's Stream Protection Rule, a regulation requiring coal firms to clean up waste from mountaintop removal mining and prevent it from going into local waterways.
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The couple told PEOPLE, "We are thrilled to begin a life together, thrilled that our family has grown, and thrilled to have a partner with whom we can weather all the storms of life and celebrate the mountaintop moments."
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Judge Edward C. Prado of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, who has chambers in San Antonio, is to officiate at San Sophia Overlook, a mountaintop event space at the Telluride Ski Resort in Telluride, Colo.
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But Hall, the author of the Olivier Award-winning "The Mountaintop" and a writer with sincere affection for every character she creates, is asking what constitutes a family in a world of fragmentation, one that keeps pulling people apart.
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In his book he told how he accommodated Lennon's request to make his voice "sound like the Dalai Lama chanting from a mountaintop" on "Tomorrow Never Knows": He pumped it through a revolving speaker normally used for an organ.
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It would have been nice to enter one of the observatories, but after weeks of being immersed in astronomy, it was enough to stand on the mountaintop and gaze at the observatory domes jutting into the piercing blue sky.
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But the war did not spare the ancient effigy of Our Lady of the Cabeza, whose 16th-century mountaintop sanctuary was reduced to rubble in 103 when Republican forces lay siege to Franco loyalists who had taken refuge there.
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In true Kiwi fashion, the gondola provides extra thrills once you reach the top, including a sled luge track (from 61 dollars, including gondola), but there's plenty of awe-inspiring scenery to freely appreciate along its mountaintop hiking trails.
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Just two years ago, the playwright Katori Hall added a requirement (barring an exemption from her) that black actors play the two roles in her play, "The Mountaintop," after a college production cast a white actor as the Rev.
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Two hours later, I ran into him again at a Legends Lunch held in a mountaintop restaurant, where local eminences dined on roasted suckling pig, and a guitar-and-piano duo covered Elton John, Billy Joel, and Louis Prima.
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Couple this with a surge of anti-elitist sentiment, and the forum, which hosts world leaders and chief executives in mountaintop chalets under tight security, has for some become a symbol of all that is wrong with the world.
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The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reviewed the state of the world's oceans and ice, ranging from ice sheets in the Arctic to mountaintop glaciers, and found many effects of climate change can no longer be avoided.
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The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reviewed the state of the world's oceans and ice, ranging from ice sheets in the Arctic to mountaintop glaciers, and found many effects of climate change can no longer be avoided.
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Many come for the nearby Aurora Sky Station, a mountaintop-viewing platform reached by a two-seater chair lift built in 1966, where on a recent night, fellow visitors hailed from India, Bolivia, South Korea, France, England and Australia.
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After the fruitless night I spent shivering on the mountaintop in Abisko, it felt luxurious to look for the lights from inside a SkyNest, one of two cozy, lemming-shaped cabins with transparent walls and ceilings in rural Kurravaara.
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There's a real estate battle brewing for the most expensive property in the history of Los Angeles, fittingly dubbed "The Mountain," because we've learned the owners of the incredible mountaintop property just laughed off a developer's $400 MILLION offer!!!
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When King delivered his last speech the night before he was killed -- in which he said, "I've been to the mountaintop" -- his eyes appeared to tear up as he admitted to the audience that he might not live much longer.
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Wednesday&aposs ordainment ceremony will take place at another temple on a Chiang Rai mountaintop before the group returns to reside for more than a week at the Wat Pha That Doi Wao temple near Thailand&aposs northern border with Myanmar.
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And despite 21 percent of all the species being threatened with extinction, the report also said new plants were still being discovered, such as a 1.5 meter (5 feet) tall insect-eating plant on a mountaintop in Brazil in 2015.
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Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter Monday to acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt demanding documents about the 85033 decision to cancel a study it had contracted out on the impacts to local areas near mountaintop removal mining operations.
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At the annual general meeting in May, Deutsche Bank executives said the bank would not expand its activities in the coal sector, adding to an earlier pledge to "phase out" debt and equity underwriting to companies that engage in mountaintop removal.
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Unfortunately, their track record is not good in West Virginia, where the mining method called mountaintop removal — the systematic dynamiting of summits to get at underlying coal seams — has devastated the Appalachian landscape, polluted waterways and driven entire hamlets into retreat.
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Five years ago, Martin Andersen, an artist in Rjukan, Norway, successfully lobbied his town, situated in a deep valley, to install three jumbo mirrors on a mountaintop in order to bring a regular blast of sunlight to Rjukan's dim main square.
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By identifying Sergeant Chapman shortly after he stepped out of the helicopter with the SEALs, the briefing slides say, its imagery analysts could follow him around the mountaintop, picking him up even when trees or other obstacles partly obscured him.
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But perhaps the most telling encounter came one bitterly cold night after Bosnian Serb gunmen turned me and other reporters back at gunpoint from a mountaintop roadblock outside a besieged Muslim enclave, notwithstanding a pass signed that day by Mr. Karadzic.
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The series has camp, melodrama, Andy Warhol and the heart-attack-inducing fantasia of Jack Smith, whose "Flaming Creatures" is often the mountaintop of any series or festival that's smart and bold enough to include this once-"indecent" avant-garde masterpiece.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Interior Department has been unable to adequately explain why it canceled a $1 million study on the public health impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining, the agency's inspector general office said in a report released on Tuesday.
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Tucker, specifically, deserves some recognition for the bite he'll provide; through a closer look at all he brings to the table, the Rockets feel as potent an adversary as any Golden State has seen since they reached the NBA's mountaintop.
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He also argued that "acts of appalling seriousness" alleged to have occurred on a mountaintop, on an altar and at a 1978 screening of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" could not have happened, citing inconsistencies in the accuser's timeline.
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At the top, a family vacationing from Milan showed me how to take a narrow gauge train (or "trenino," as they called it) around the entire plateau, for 10 additional euros and a view of the mountaintop from every possible angle.
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The Farrells' way of life is threatened by the world down below and especially by a coal company that wants them evicted so it can mine the mountaintop, a plan that promises jobs and gives the series a current-events peg.
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In a statement on Friday, the ministry said it would revoke the concession on the mountaintop property outside Rome granted to the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, citing violations of various contractual obligations including a failure to pay concession fees and do maintenance work.
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Early in his administration, Trump was shown a scale model of North Korea's sprawling nuclear bomb test site with a removable mountaintop and a miniature Statue of Liberty inside so he could grasp the size of the facility, two U.S. officials said.
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Being at the mountaintop generates the maximum degree of sensory throughput, and is a better way to understand the truth of your relationship to that place than watching a video of the mountain, which is better than seeing a picture of the mountain.
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A letter from the Interior Department directed the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to "cease all work" on a study of the potential health risks of mountaintop removal mining for people living near surface coal mine sites in central Appalachia.
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"It's infuriating that Trump would halt this study on the health effects of mountaintop removal coal mining, research that people in Appalachia have been demanding for years," said Bill Price, Senior Appalachia Organizing Representative for environmental advocacy group Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign.
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Some research links mountaintop-removal mining to carcinogens in local groundwater that can lead to cancer, heart disease, and birth defects, which means thousands of families, especially those who rely on well water, live with constant anxiety about long-term health problems.
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" The New York Times noted that a year ago, when Trump's election victory was fresh news, "the globalists meeting in this mountaintop getaway reeled in shock, panicked that his campaign promises meant the end of the movement they had nurtured for decades.
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When she drives "as if she were landing an enormous plane full of porcelain children on a mountaintop," we can tell what a careful surgeon she is, even as we surmise that there will be some breakage before the story is over.
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Often traveling together, the group members chronicle their lives tirelessly from beach to mountaintop to Mr. Warren's parents' apartment on Central Park West (to which he returned after graduating from Syracuse University in 2015) for their combined Instagram following of more than 2015,000.
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The Justice Department's IG got all the attention, while largely overlooked was a disturbing report from the Interior Department IG, who concluded that the agency had no reasonable rationale for halting a major study of the health risks of mountaintop removal mining.
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Ocasio-Cortez told the outlet that she considered "economic and social dignity" of coal miners when she was drafting the plan, citing the high cancer level rates and the environmental effects of mountaintop removal mining which can cause an influx of debris.
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In December, Human Rights Watch published a report highlighting the situation for several families living near Coal Mountain in Wyoming County, W.Va. They reported their water turned brown and began reeking of rotten eggs after a mountaintop mine began operating near their homes.
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Across the Narrow Sea, on a mountaintop denuded of drama, we have a simple scene enacted as though with Mattel action figures, where Jorah Mormont confesses his love to the Khaleesi, reveals his fatal case of greyscale, Daenerys's heart breaks, and they part.
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Stocks have seen a pop because they will be unleashed on the extraction side to embrace increasingly efficient, cost-effective extraction… which means more robots, more automated trucks, more open pit extraction, more mountaintop removal as opposed to the more expensive underground work.
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We are used to seeing that civil rights leader, or his pseudonymous stand-ins, fictionalized and anatomized in plays like "The Mountaintop" by Katori Hall, "The Good Negro" by Tracey Scott Wilson and "The Man in Room 306" by Craig Alan Edwards.
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Officials had been trying numerous approaches to reach the boys, including attempting to find other entry points into the seven-mile-long cave complex and possibly drilling through the mountaintop into the roof of the cavern where the group was believed to be.
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Self-knowledge is not to be found, his work argues, on a psychoanalyst's couch or a remote mountaintop, but rather in the things with which we surround ourselves, what passes through our hands and over our bodies, and how we use them.
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Getting out of the car on my way to the stunning mountaintop village of Exogi, I walked along an unpaved path to the "School of Homer," to be rewarded only by a ravishing view of olive trees and blue-green coves far below.
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THAM LUANG CAVE, Thailand — The Thai authorities said on Thursday that they believed members of a youth soccer team trapped in a flooding cave complex could have reached a large, dry cavern, and officials were considering drilling through the mountaintop to reach them.
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It's about breathing fresh air, feasting at one of the province's 26 Michelin-starred restaurants (the highest concentration in Italy) and enjoying lunch on a mountaintop where the conversation typically includes multiple languages — a reminder of the potential for harmony in the world.
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Anyone who really cared about those miners would be crusading to protect their health, disability and pension benefits, and trying to provide alternative employment opportunities — not pretending that environmental irresponsibility will somehow bring back jobs lost to strip mining and mountaintop removal.
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There was no threat of terrorism — Mr. Weaver just wanted to be left alone on his mountaintop, and the firearms charges that brought the government to his door raised entrapment issues similar to those in many cases against alleged Muslim terrorists today.
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USP Big Sandy, where Ada Smith's cousin works, was erected on a leveled mountaintop in Martin County, a few miles from the front porch in Inez that Lyndon Johnson visited in 1964, seeking to give a face to his War on Poverty.
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Mormonism no longer a "cult" after Romney meeting After Graham met with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney -- a Mormon -- at his mountaintop retreat in 2012, the Billy Graham Evangelical Association removed a reference on its website that said Mormonism was a cult.
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The Obama administration's years-in-the-making rule to protect streams from mountaintop removal coal mining is on track to go into effect a day before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, meaning Congress will have to step in to kill it quickly.
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Editorial As the destructive coal mining process known as mountaintop removal ebbs in Appalachia, it is leaving behind what amounts to its own grim field of tombstones: A grossly disfigured landscape pocked with decapitated mountains standing flat as mesas and inhospitable to forest restoration.
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Officials in West Virginia had asked the Obama administration last year to investigate the health effects of mountaintop-removal mining; in response, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine received $1 million to conduct a two-year study on potential effects in Central Appalachia.
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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Thursday inducted a new member into "the world&aposs most exclusive club of heroes" by awarding a Medal of Honor to a Navy SEAL who led a daring assault and rescue mission on a snowy Afghanistan mountaintop in 2002.
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Couldn't he just let the playoffs run their course, score 30 a game and look good doing it, then rest, sitting on the mountaintop and watching the remainder of the playoffs pass him by while a happy universe quietly sings his praises even in defeat?
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Every September and October, the island's dunes become a way station for tens of thousands of monarch butterflies, who stop there on their three-thousand-mile journey from Canada to a mountaintop in Michoacán, near Mexico City, where they go to reproduce and die.
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This was a planned strategy over many years in which instead of talking about features, Nike screamed from the mountaintop about empowerment through sport, celebrating life and learning life's lessons through sport (comradery, team, leadership, anything is possible, overcoming obstacles, creating a better you).
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Andrew Milani of the Army, wrote later that an Air Force gunship had failed to detect the militants on the mountaintop and that the SEALs had "violated a basic tenet of reconnaissance" by landing directly on their observation post instead of hiking up to it.
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They say he is doing more harm than good by promoting developments on the state's ridgelines, among Vermont's most important assets, where turbines, roadways and infrastructure are destroying habitats, increasing flood risks and scarring the landscape much the way mountaintop mining has scarred West Virginia.
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The structures are themselves magnificent, but their beauty is greatly enhanced by the setting: a semideserted, out-of-the-way (about 40 minutes from Palermo) and wholly rural mountaintop from which you can see far across the bucolic countryside and, beyond it, the sea.
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A low-level employee in the local government, who asked not to be named and would only speak to me on a mountaintop on the outskirts of the city, explained that wealthy individuals or companies purchase small parcels of land from the local government.
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I took a streetcar through Munich's historic old town and even rode the limping, filthy A train from J.F.K. In Japan, we watched from a nearby mountaintop as snow-capped Mount Fuji coyly emerged from misty clouds, the sun a smear of white behind it.
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Clean coal technology is also tremendously expensive—"Power plants with CCS cost about 20143 percent more than regular coal plants," according to the New York Times—and doesn't address the other environmental and health impacts of coal mining, such as mountaintop removal, and airborne toxins.
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The mood was strikingly different from a year ago, when Mr. Trump was about to take office and the globalists meeting in this mountaintop getaway reeled in shock, panicked that his campaign promises meant the end of the movement they had nurtured for decades.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Sunday evening, a man walked through a crowd of visitors at Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, calmly approached a painting of a Crimean mountaintop, then lifted it off the wall and carried it out of the gallery into broad daylight.
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The bile bubbles up at Argestes, a mountaintop gathering of business "thought leaders," where the Roys plan to announce their deal to acquire Pierce Global Media — a plan that gets scotched when the ticking time bomb of Waystar's cruise ship sexual harassment scandal finally explodes.
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Congress has repealed an Interior rule meant to protect streams from mountaintop removal mining waste, Interior has overturned a moratorium on new coal mining on federal land, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started repealing numerous regulations meant to reduce pollution from coal use.
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On Monday, the Trump administration announced that it was canceling a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine study into the health impacts from mountaintop removal mining, in which companies in Appalachia blast open the tops of mountains and dump the rubble into nearby valleys.
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It was New Year's Eve at the turn of the millennium, and as mayor he dashed off an email to the authorities in Rome seeking an audience to explain his initiative to connect his struggling mountaintop town of about 2100,23 inhabitants to the internet.
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Atop the isolated Avelengo plateau visible on a mountaintop opposite the Vigilius, the San Luis Retreat Hotel & Lodges is a collection of modern chalets and "tree houses" on stilts, all splayed on a meadow around a central lake, with hills of larch trees rising behind.
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Originally requested under the Obama administration, the NASEM study was meant to settle unresolved questions about the safety of mountaintop mining, and what research should be funded to answer health questions, left over from a National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences review of almost 100 studies.
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How the iPod won the day and toppled Sony from the audio mountaintop Tony reveals his secret sauce for prototypes when pitching his ideas – Styrofoam models – and how the iPod seized on the emerging small-hard-drive and MP3 technologies to meet consumer demand for mobile music.
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We are all sisters and brothers It would take me many years to truly appreciate the words of King, from his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech to his final words, really his own eulogy the day before he died, the "Mountaintop" sermon in Memphis, Tennessee.
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What happened instead was, first, a decades-long erosion as U.S. coal production shifted from underground mining to strip mining and mountaintop removal, which require many fewer workers: Coal employment peaked in 1979, fell rapidly during the Reagan years, and was down more than half by 2007.
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You hear them every year around this time: The famous, feel-good Martin Luther King Jr. quotes about looking over the mountaintop, about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin, about children in cross-racial friendships holding hands.
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Gradually, forest reclaimed the mountaintop, which became a dumping ground for Mob executions and a lure for teen-agers—who discovered one worthy contribution of the National Guard, in the form of concrete tunnels that trainees originally used to get around the range without being shot.
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In casual conversation, he gives the impression of having lived a very full life; his musings are peppered with references to practicing Zen on a California mountaintop with Leonard Cohen and drinking wine in Northern California with Francis Ford Coppola, for whose company he was a board member.
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The House passed resolutions last week to undo five separate Obama-era regulations, including rules to report disability benefit recipients deemed unfit to manage their own finances to the FBI's gun background check system and require coal companies to clean up waste from mountaintop removal mining from local waterways.
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He would portray an American man of science, the grandson of the infamous Dr. Frankenstein, who tries to turn his back on his heritage ("that's Frahn-kahn-STEEN") but finds himself irresistibly drawn to Transylvania to duplicate his grandfather's creation of a monster in a spooky mountaintop laboratory.
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La Hospedería del Santuario Located next to the mountaintop sanctuary of Our Lady of the Cabeza, with stunning views of the Sierra Morena range, this 18-room hotel was rebuilt from a structure destroyed during the Spanish Civil War; it is run by an order of Catholic priests.
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The film, written by Mr. Bong and Jon Ronson and starring Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano, tells of the tweenage Mija, an orphan who lives with her grandfather and her best friend, Okja, a six-ton genetically engineered pig, on a verdant mountaintop in South Korea.
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"In order to ensure the department is using tax dollars in a way that advances the department's mission and fulfills the roles mandated by Congress, in April the department began reviewing grants and cooperative partnerships that exceed $100,000," she continued, leading to the hold on the mountaintop removal research.
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"A mutual friend said to me, 'I'd like you to meet a very nice young lady,'" Mr. Mann recalled after chopping wood one recent morning at his mountaintop home in nearby Cuddebackville, N.Y. On their first date, he drove her to a restaurant in Middletown called Something Sweet.
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As Gregory Payton, the 9-year-old grandson of a Baptist minister, practices an address interweaving King's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech with the 23rd Psalm, viewers see him starting to master the crescendos and flourishes of the African-American rhetorical traditions of his grandfather and King.
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If we at Trout Unlimited have learned anything from our years of on-the-water restoration experience, it is this: Smartly regulating mountaintop removal mining at the outset is a lot more cost-effective than trying to repair streams from the ravages of acid mine drainage caused by mining.
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The end of the American calendar sports year features a festival of college football bowl games that fill television airwaves — if not attendant stadiums — and since 225 a four-team playoff to determine which of the blessed chosen gets to shout from a mountaintop that is, arguably, mythical.
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One estimate suggests that the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope — an 8.4-meter telescope under construction on a Chilean mountaintop that will soon scan the entire sky — might have to deal with one Starlink satellite in every couple of images it takes during the first few hours of twilight.
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"I did Titanic, dude," she cracked during a press panel yesterday for her upcoming film, The Mountain Between Us. Winslet and Idris Elba star as Alex and Ben, two strangers who come together to battle the elements and fall in love when their chartered plane crashes on a snowy mountaintop.
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The rule is particularly important to combat the devastating practice of mountaintop removal mining, which has resulted in the destruction of over 2,000 miles of streams, including those that serve as drinking water sources for millions of people, flattened an area the size of Delaware, and decimated forests and natural habitats.
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As a teenager in the early 1970s, in a tent after running away from his nouveau riche home in New Jersey to escape his father's violent, homophobic rage, and after consuming what sounds like a half a gram of LSD, Rush stayed on the mountaintop for almost two years, alone.
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"The National Institute of Environmental and Health Sciences concluded in July that after examining available studies, it didn't see evidence justifying a health hazard, noting that no conclusive evidence connected mountaintop mining with health effects and that studies often failed to account for extraneous health and lifestyle effects," he said.
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Most interesting in light of Mr. Trump's campaign pledge to increase the number of coal industry jobs is a segment that suggests expanded coal production would not generate a significant number of jobs because mountaintop-removal mining methods now in use are not as labor intensive as underground mining was.
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Students learned that in Ghana, caskets are woven in the shape of objects beloved by the deceased; in South Korea, a person's remains may be pressed into jewelry; and in Tibet, the mountaintop "sky burial" in the open allows a dead person's soul to exit the body and be reincarnated.
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But the majority of charges against the cardinal were either withdrawn or dismissed, including several of the most serious allegations, which were said to have taken place in a playground, on an altar, on a mountaintop and during a 1970s screening of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" in Ballarat.
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Twice in 2017, the New York Times editorial board railed against Trump's "war on science" — first after his administration released a budget request that would have slashed spending on research, then after the National Academies were told to stop working on a study of the health effects of mountaintop removal coal mining.
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What Sucks: Busting Your Ass After Slipping on IceMake it Suck Less: Yaktrax Summit, $90If you plan to summit any peaks (which I recommend—hiking uphill will keep you nice and warm), then you may find yourself crossing above the alpine line, where wind sweeps away the snow to leave the mountaintop bare.
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In some of these current incarnations, brows are kept darker, stating, with utter confidence, that artificial white is itself the act, per the slightly indecent old saying, "There may be snow on the mountaintop ..." Every few years I try to let my white hair grow in, then give up after about an inch.
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Work crews have repaired storm-damaged Puerto Rico's electricity grid in fits and starts over the last 250 months, but they had never managed to light up Ms. Méndez's mountaintop home — until Tuesday, when she became among the last residential customers of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to have service restored.
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The Stream Protection Rule, which requires companies to restore mined areas to their original physical and ecological state and to monitor for environmental effects, would have effectively made mountaintop removal uneconomical, experts said — especially when coal prices remain depressed amid competition from natural gas and renewable energy sources like wind and solar.
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Many locals here grow Taggiasca olives and other local specialties to make their own olive oil, including Ugo Vairo, the owner of a small mountaintop restaurant called Il Gallo Della Checca, at the outskirts of Ranzo, another tiny town — this one is so quiet it almost seems like it has been abandoned.
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"The physical effects of mountaintop mining are much more similar to volcanic eruptions where the entire landscape is fractured, deepened and decoupled from prior landscape evolution trajectories, effectively resetting the clock on landscape and ecosystem co-evolution," the report declares after sampling one West Virginia waste field laden with enough rubble to bury Manhattan Island.
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He describes the view as breathtaking, which, I mean, I suppose I have not come face to face with the nigh infinite nature of the middle of the ocean from a mountaintop and so can't say for sure, but it really does feel like kind of an exaggeration, considering the ocean is just, like, water.
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Then there are the employees who have accused him of verbal and physical harassment; neighbors whose drinking water was poisoned by Massey's improper disposal of hazardous waste; rival businessmen Blankenship squeezed into bankruptcy; and Appalachians whose health has been impaired by the disastrous environmental effects of mountaintop removal, an extractive technique Blankenship helped pioneer.
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And at Manchester United, much of the past year has been devoted to raining criticism on Ed Woodward, the former investment banker whose tenure has coincided with not only a fall from the Premier League's mountaintop, but also the spending of hundreds of millions of dollars to buy out one transfer mistake after another.
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Without warning or explanation, the National Solar Observatory (NSO) evacuated the small group of scientists, researchers, and students who work at the remote, mountaintop Sunspot facility and shut down all operations for nearly two weeks earlier this month, igniting intense interest worldwide and fueling thousands of discussions as to what could be happening in New Mexico.
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There may be associated public health effects, as well: A 2011 study showed that areas near mountaintop-removal mines in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia had higher mortality rates compared to other counties in those states, but the MTM areas also have higher poverty rates, and poverty is linked to higher mortality rates on its own.
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As moving as his speech that night in cold and drizzly Indianapolis had been, it elicited little commentary afterward: it came too late for the morning papers, and, like King's equally memorable remarks the night before — his last speech, the one about having been to the mountaintop — it was lost in the enormity of the assassination.
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But the solution is as non-obvious as it gets: the draft-night triumphalism of team president John Elway moving up to pick Lynch seemed to mark the problem solved, but Lynch is a small-school, gimmick-offense prospect; it's incredibly unlikely that he's ready to pilot a Super Bowl champion back to the mountaintop in year one.
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Over a dozen peer-reviewed studies show significantly higher rates of cardiovascular disease, lung and other types of cancer, birth defects, and overall mortality in counties with mountaintop removal compared with Appalachian counties with other types of mining or no mining at all, even after they controlled for factors such as poverty, smoking, obesity and education.
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Gravity, he has argued time and again, was created and made visible by the labor and expertise of scientists, the government funding that paid for their education, the electricity that powered up the sluggish computer, the truck that transported the gravimeter to the mountaintop, the geophysicists who translated its readings into calculations and legible diagrams, and so on.
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The greats are here, either discussed or appearing on camera themselves: Max Steiner (whose orchestral flourishes enriched "King Kong"); Alex North (of "A Streetcar Named Desire," whom the film credits with ushering jazz into scores); John Barry (whose James Bond theme would influence spy films in perpetuity); and giants on their own mountaintop, Bernard Herrmann and Ennio Morricone.
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You didn't realize how much so until the Easter vigil, on Saturday night, when you saw the whole island suddenly together — when that great sleepy glittering caterpillar procession of parishioners carrying their white candles descended the whitewashed alleys and narrow goat paths of the mountaintop village on their way home to eat soup — and you wept, at length.
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They are secure in the knowledge that their island is wildly beautiful — imagine alpine mountains rising from Mediterranean shores — so they assume that whichever pink granite inlet, mountaintop lake or boulder-strewn valley you do see, even if it's not the best known, will be among the most wondrous sights of what, you've now realized, is your flat and boxed-in life.
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The hollows of Appalachia still ring with the rulings of Chief Judge Charles Haden II of United States District Court for his determined stand against King Coal 17 years ago in a Charleston, W.Va., courthouse: "If there is any life form that cannot acclimate to life deep in a rubble pile, it is eliminated," he said after personally visiting mountaintop removal's destructive power in the land.
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Performances include "32 rue Vandenbranden," a dance piece that examines a Japanese community where elderly citizens are exiled to a mountaintop to live out the rest of their lives after the age of 123; "MDLSX," a solo show starring Silva Calderoni about the experience of being transgender; and "Figure a Sea," a contemporary ballet for 17 dancers by the up-and-coming Swedish group Cullberg Ballet.
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But there is nothing in Battlefield V's as disappointing as its Grand Operations, which promise a sprawling, multi-day, battle narrative, but delivers an experience that feels more like a demo for the game you're already playing.. Each operation is a variety pack: Narvik's Breakthrough leads to a mountaintop Domination battle in Norway that consistently turns into a fast-paced multiplayer whack-a-mole.
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Wildlife advocates say mountaintop removal and other forms of coal mining can put the species' habitat at risk — GOP senators want answers about EV tax credits: A group of Republican senators sent a letter to the IRS calling for details about the enforcement of an electric vehicle tax credit, referring to findings that revealed $33 million in tax credits were awarded incorrectly in 2010.
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Like this place,Our village is one of striking shapes and deedswhere cultures and languages jive like seeds Village to Cynthia Erivo, London miracle, whose voice ripsopen the sky from the mountaintop of the stageVillage to Pete Cashmore, who at my age builta gathering site for the courageously curious and obstinately obsessiveVillage to ElsaMarie D'Silva, who took her own pain to carve out a thick roof of voices for assaulted women.
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While Congress hasn't been able to repeal and replace Obamacare, which Republicans have been promising for the seven years since it was passed, they have gotten rid of regulations around mountaintop removal for coal mining, a rule that kept internet service providers from using selling customers data to advertisers without their permission, and a Securities and Exchange Commission regulation that requires corporations to disclose payments to foreign governments.
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" —JM Lyrics on the Paper: "we travel with the notions and the emotions…….." —JR Saint Rise: "In August 2017, Lebanon looks with mixed feeling at a giant statue of Saint Charbel as it is transported and erected on the highest mountaintop in Faraya … This saint is now being heralded by conservative religious media as a healer of the Coronavirus, and people are flocking to take soil from the burial place.
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I'm still waiting for the pointed question to the candidates who oppose nuclear power, or a question to all candidates about how they will fight the powerful fossil fuel lobbies or convince world leaders to come along with them, or any question about one of the myriad of environmental issues other than climate change, such as mountaintop removal, access to drinkable water, or the pollution of waterways, land, and air.
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