Advocates Fight Mountaintop Removal

TruthOut, Inter Press Service by Matthew Cardinale | Oct. 2, 2009 (News)

Environmental groups across the southeast United States, from Georgia to the Appalachia region, are stepping up their opposition to a controversial but widespread practice by coal companies of removing the tops of mountains with explosives. Full Story »

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by Doris Kirkpatrick - Oct. 3, 2009

This issue is important for the whole nation but especially to those of us in the Southeast. The blasting fills up the streams and destroys old, growth forests, creates erosion and eyesores. The article explains further the destruction it causes. The Great Smokey Mountains are the most visited of all National Parks.