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Removing Coal River Mountain

October 26, 2009

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

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appalachia, brushyfork, dirtycoal, marshfork, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, westvirginia

The message was like a punch in the gut: "The blasting has begun." Coal River Mountain in southern West Virginia, heretofore America's "most endangered" mountain, is now under assualt by Massey Energy, the nation's fourth-largest coal company and the worst offender...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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