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The Worldwatch Institute was one of several organizations to nominate Gunnoe for the award, which recognizes individuals for their sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk. Gunnoe has emerged as a leader in the effort to stop mountaintop-removal mining in her native West Virginia and beyond, enduring threats to her personal safety and that of her family. She has played a significant role in building support for the Clean Water Protection Act, a resolution that would potentially outlaw mountaintop removal. The bill, HR 1310, was reintroduced in March with a record number of sponsors.

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  • The Worldwatch Institute was one of several organizations to nominate Gunnoe for the award, which recognizes individuals for their sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk. Gunnoe has emerged as a leader in the effort to stop mountaintop-removal mining in her native West Virginia and beyond, enduring threats to her personal safety and that of her family. She has played a significant role in building support for the Clean Water Protection Act, a resolution that would potentially outlaw mountaintop removal. The bill, HR 1310, was reintroduced in March with a record number of sponsors.
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  • The Worldwatch Institute was one of several organizations to nominate Gunnoe for the award, which recognizes individuals for their sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk. Gunnoe has emerged as a leader in the effort to stop mountaintop-removal mining in her native West Virginia and beyond, enduring threats to her personal safety and that of her family. She has played a significant role in building support for the Clean Water Protection Act, a resolution that would potentially outlaw mountaintop removal. The bill, HR 1310, was reintroduced in March with a record number of sponsors. While proponents argue that coal mining will create jobs, a recent Worldwatch analysis noted that the industry is requiring steadily fewer jobs as mechanized strip-mining practices (including mountaintop removal) take the place of human capital. In the United States alone, coal industry employment has fallen by half in the last 20 years, despite a one-third increase in production. At the same time, an estimated 2.3 million people worldwide hold so-called "green jobs," meaning they currently work either directly in renewables or indirectly in supplier industries. These figures are expected to swell substantially as private investment and government support for alternative energy sources grow. The most optimistic analyses project that global wind power employment will increase to as much as 2.1 million in 2030 and 2.8 million in 2050. Similar projections estimate that worldwide solar photovoltaic production could create as many as 6.3 million jobs by 2030.
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