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Coal Miner's Slaughter
West Virginia activist Julia Bonds takes on mountaintop-removal mining |
Michelle Nijhuis |
14 Apr 2003 |
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| The ancient mountains of Appalachia are corrugated with deep, narrow valleys, some of them no wider than a football field. Coal-mining families, who have lived in these valleys for generations, are now being driven out of their homes by the latest innovation of the very industry that has sustained them for so many years. That innovation, mountaintop-removal mining, litera ... |
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| Topics: energy, environmental non-government organizations, interview, US EPA, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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