Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining

Appalachian communities are suffering as a result of mountaintop removal mining. Earthjustice is working through the courts to protect Appalachian communities from this destructive practice and to ensure the Clean Water Act is enforced.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Appalachia
• coal
• mountaintop
• removal
• Clean
• Water
• Act
• earthjustice
• mining
• mtr

[mountainpbp]

Mountaintop Removal destroys the 2nd most bio-diverse ecosystem on the planet, poisons thousands of miles of headwater streams, and directly effects the health of surrounding communities.

I'd rather see wind turbines than cemeteries full of headstones marked with the names of innocent victims of this poisonous process of mining.

And where is the proof that coal is burned cleanly and efficiently?

Where? It is certainly not in the crippled coal fields of Appalachia.

[BabetteBabich]

An awful circumstance and an important video -- but one wonders why the administration is complacent... indeed: why are laws not enforced?

[proaudiohd]

We need major investment into aneutronic fusion, so we can safely shut down every coal plant on earth.

[MrLespaul10]

@mountainpbp Well when you can show me a job soulution to take the pace of people from the applachias you let me know. Because if coal mining is stopped there will be no geting "just for fun" items any more for little coal towns. It will be a miniature depresion, nothing but the basics to say alive on. So go ahead cut coal, but also get ready to cut some of our economy.

[Tyco200]

Well, sadly we will have to learn the hard way... If problems come? Our fault. Now Mountain-Top removing! Jesus Christ!

[TysoniusRex]

You don't like nuclear, but you don't want coal mining from mountaintops either? Good luck ever stopping that.

[dozer3man]

i have lives here 40 years it does nothin but help us r

[sp0ttedp0ny330]

I live in the Appy mtns. in TN. Even after the giant "sludge ponds" broke their banks and destroyed a HUGE area of TN...it STILL goes on...here and in s.w. VA!! Yes for now we need coal as fuel...*sigh* BUT there HAS to be a better way!! Raping the mtns is causing far more problems than people are willing to admit...even when its in their own back yards (literally!!)

Pony

[Gettinghitonattheban]

@coalvein

ANOTHER FACT:

A single volcano erupting sends more gases that people define as harmful into the atmosphere than almost 100 of human industrialization.

[cardinalcrest]

Coal does keep the lights on. The coal industry also creates many jobs and these jobs have fed generations of people. We also need more farm land. These reclaimed mines provide a usuable place for operations such a beef production. People opposing mining need to visit Eastern Kentucky and some old strip mines. Many of them are beautiful places and you can't even tell they have been mined.

[momentofsciencetx]

Wow you really have no understanding of science do you. You say you are not looking at science since science is theories and not facts. I recommend you go online and look up the definition of a scientific theory. You are an example of what is wrong with the education system in the U.S. You praise the fantasy and ignore the reality.