Inbreeding in Appalachia??
Regardless of who you are if you call Appalachia home this story should piss you off. Law Firm Says Inbreeding Skews Data Linking Mountaintop Removal to Birth Defects Last month, researchers at Washington State University and West Virginia University released a study that found a correlation between mountaintop removal and mining birth defects. A law [...]
Shameful Displays of Intimidation
The following post is a coalfield resident’s reaction to the shameful conduct of coal supporters at the Nationwide 21 Permit Hearing in Charleston, WV. ============ Click below to watch a video of the permit hearing. Nationwide 21 Permit Hearing, Charleston, WV. The events that occurred at the EPA hearing in Charleston, WV, on Tuesday, October [...]
Economy Trumps Environment
Coal Conference Takes A Look at Mountaintop Removal Carbon legislation soon up for debate in Congress could “make shambles out of this economy” by drastically increasing the price of energy, Manchin said, and all who see the need for coal should rally while economic concerns appear to trump environmental concerns in politics. — “Now is [...]
Mine jobs don’t justify…
I’m going to try and make this post as black and white as possible. An article I read a while back had this title “Mine Jobs Don’t Justify Stripping Mountains” – plain and simple, black and white. I started thinking about this again when reading an article this morning and the very first sentence was [...]
Appalachia, Coming Apart At The Seams
A section of Kayford Mountain in less than two months, June to August. ———Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation’s character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us. – Aldo Leopold
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