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 Stories About: environmental justice AND mining AND Poverty and the Environment AND West Virginia
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Moving Mountains
Mountaintop-removal mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back |
Erik Reece |
16 Feb 2006 |
Main Dish |
| This article was originally published in Orion Magazine. Not since the glaciers pushed toward these ridgelines a million years ago have the Appalachian Mountains been as threatened as they are today. But the coal-extraction process decimating this landscape, known as mountaintop removal, has generated little press beyond the region. A mountaintop no more. Photo: Viv ... |
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| Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, environmental justice, health, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment, Virginia, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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We Live It Every Day
The faces and voices of West Virginians battered by mountaintop removal |
Antrim Caskey |
16 Feb 2006 |
Main Dish |
| These photographs were originally published in Orion Magazine. In May 2005, photographer Antrim Caskey encountered Maria Gunnoe in Manhattan. Gunnoe had come to protest the practice of mountaintop-removal mining at a Massey Energy shareholders meeting. Two days later, Caskey left for the Cumberland Plateau, where she made these images. "People are scared," Caskey sa ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, mining, Poverty and the Environment, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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