Group stages sit-in at EPA

They risk arrest for protest on federal property.

Six environmentalists have locked themselves down outside the Environmental Protection Agency and don't plan to move until the agency responds to their concerns.

The Rainforest Action Network members set up two 20-foot tents on a patch of green in front of the E.P.A. building Thursday morning and locked themselves to the structure. They could be arrested for being on federal property without permission.

The group has uploaded photos of their demonstration here .

The purple tents are supposed to signify the Appalachian Mountains, where miners use dynamite to extract coal buried in the range. The group wants the E.P.A. to ban the practice known as mountaintop removal.

"They're going to be there until the police arrest them," RAN's Nell Greenberg said.

Greenberg believes such protests demonstrate public opposition against the federal policy.

A spokesman for the D.C. Police said the building's security team hasn't alerted them to take action yet.

-- Ambreen Ali, Congress.org

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