Notable quotable

Coal is the enemy of the human remains 0

“I wanted to secure in my mind that this cemetery was OK. I found out it wasn’t OK. It was gone.”

Walter Young, a resident of West Virginia whose great-grandmother’s grave was moved, without his knowledge, by a coal mining company—the company has no record of where they moved it

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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