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Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining
Environment  (tags: mountain top mining, wildlife, trees, water, protection, pollution, humans, nature, habitatdestruction, environment, destruction, ecosystems, conservation )

Daphna
- 72 days ago - e360.yale.edu
During the last two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has destroyed or severely damaged more than a million acres of forest and buried nearly 2,000 miles of streams. Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining, a video re
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Gorilly Girl (369)
Saturday October 17, 2009, 7:42 pm
It will never be what she once was truey a horror story here,,,,

Big Gorilly Hugs
 

mary f. (78)
Sunday October 18, 2009, 5:00 am
disgusting shame on them
 

Pamylle G. (256)
Sunday October 18, 2009, 6:39 am
A travesty !
 

Wanda Hutchins (0)
Sunday October 18, 2009, 7:31 pm
Mining has destroyed a beautiful Silver City NM area. it is terrible to see. Hurts the Soul
 

Roseann D. (74)
Sunday October 18, 2009, 8:00 pm
So much or America the Beautiful....probably the same idiots claiming to believe in Intelligent Design...only to ruin it with moronic destruction. Such lowlifes....and they have the nerve to say..."our wild horses ruin our public lands" No mention of those millions of cattle mucking up the place and eroding the soil and of course Oil, Gas, Coal, and other development.
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (266)
Sunday October 18, 2009, 8:21 pm
Blinded by their money and greed to see the bigger picture disappearing before their very eyes.. only when they fall into their own pit may they see the light of their deeds...
 

Koo J. (97)
Tuesday October 20, 2009, 1:01 am
Mountain-top mining should be illegal.
 
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