Richard Cartwright Austin

Austin helped organize a national effort to secure federal legislation regulating strip mining for coal. He also organized the Coalition of American Electric Consumers, which successfully resisted the construction of the world's largest pumped-storage hydroelectric project on small farms, forests, and nature preserves in southerwestern Virginia. He holds a doctor of the science of theology degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary and is retired from a forty-year ministry with the...See more

Austin helped organize a national effort to secure federal legislation regulating strip mining for coal. He also organized the Coalition of American Electric Consumers, which successfully resisted the construction of the world's largest pumped-storage hydroelectric project on small farms, forests, and nature preserves in southerwestern Virginia. He holds a doctor of the science of theology degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary and is retired from a forty-year ministry with the Presbyterian Church. See less