"With the election of President Obama, environmentalists had expected to see the end of the "Appalachian apocalypse," their name for exposing coal deposits by blowing the tops off whole mountains.
But in recent weeks, the administration has quietly made a decision to open the way for at least two dozen more mountaintop removals."
More here.
“We All Live in the Coal Fields”: West Virginians Step Up Protests as EPA OKs New Mountaintop Removal
ReplyDeleteTake a minute to listen to Author Jeff Biggers, who was on Friday with Amy Goodman at Democracy Now!
Do you think for one minute that President Obama cares a rat's arse about these poor people? The coal industry is making huge $ and Obama isn't going to "Change" this horrendous mountain top removal. Which, as Rady has alluded, is destroying West Virginia rivers and streams. How dam sad is this?
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/29/coal