Advocates Fight Mountaintop Removal
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 »
Posted by Patricia Blochowiak
I have been distressed for so many years, seeing this desecration of a beautiful land, and finding that the government cared more about the greed and profits of the mine owners than about the law, environment, and well being of the people who live there. I hope that the current administration will begin to reverse some of these wrongs, and that more journalists like this one will work to bring these types of issues to the attention of the public.