Environmentalists decry 'mountaintop removal'
- By Tom Hamburger and Peter Wallsten | Tribune Newspapers June 1, 2009
WASHINGTON - With the election of Barack Obama, environmentalists expected to see the end of the "Appalachian apocalypse" -- their name for exposing coal deposits by blowing the tops off of whole mountains.
But in recent weeks, the Obama administration has quietly decided to open the way for at least two dozen more "mountaintop removal" projects.
