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COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN, W.Va. – This mountain in southern West Virginia, right in the middle of Appalachia’s spine, is fast becoming someone’s Waterloo.
It’s too soon to tell who will be the loser: the coal industry, the environmentalists or the people who call this region home.
Nearly 500 mountaintops in Appalachia have been destroyed (or used for commerce, depending on your perspective) by mountaintop-removal mining.
MRM, as it is known, is cheaper and faster than underground mining. It involves blasting the top of a mountain to...
The Battle For Coal River Mountain
Location: KY
I used to live in eastern KY in the coal mining area. In a town called Martin.
It was a disaster. The people were treated wore than animals and many had black lung disease while the corporates of the companies got megarich. They were all astoudingly poor and most of them sick. Lots of them hate missing arms or legs.
All the rivers were polluted as they still are. Lots of toxic waste that especially harms the fetuses that rightwingers say the support. Toxic waste like that never goes away but keeps on making people sick.
Rightwigners don't seem to mind if America the Beautiful turns into America the Toxic Waste Country and that ever more Americans die early from toxic pollution.