Home to some of the most diverse habitats on the continent, Appalachian forests and streams are being permanently altered by mountaintop removal and valley fill mining.
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Mountain Top Removal Mining
Scientists Agree: Mountain Top Removal Mining Is Stupid
Site of Kingston Coal Ash Spill Re-opened For Recreation, But Is It Too Soon?
Though clean-up is at least three years from being completed, the TVA and EPA have decided to reopen the Emory River, site of the massive Kingston coal ash spill.
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Anti-MTR Activists Arrested at Massey Facility and Given $100k Bail
Two MTR activists were arrested yesterday while protesting at Massey Energy’s regional
headquarters in Boone county, W.Va. Magistrate Snodgrass set their bails at $100,000 each for misdemeanor charges of trespassing, conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor, obstructing an officer, and littering.
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