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Coal Company Boycotting State Deemed Unfriendly to Mountaintop Removal

July 7, 2009

Posted by Rob Perks in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
appalachiarestorationact, arch, dirtycoal, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, scenicvistasprotectionact, tennessee

About 10 years ago St. Louis-based Arch Coal, the nation's second-largest coal mining company, launched an ill-fated PR campaign with full-color newspaper ads touting mountaintop removal as "the right thing to do."  It now looks like the company is trading soft persuasion for hardball tactics with its newest...continued

Rob Perks
Rob Perks
Director, Center for Advocacy Campaigns
Washington, D.C.
I run NRDC's Center for Advocacy Campaigns. Our shop exists to guide NRDC's policy and...
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