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“To a child of Appalachia, to see the mountains laid waste, whether by clear-cutting or strip mining, is to witness a dagger plunged into the very bosom from which you sprang and which has sustained you.”

The Appalachian region is home to one of the oldest and most biologically diverse mountain systems on the continent. Tragically, mountaintop removal mining has already destroyed more than 500 mountains encompassing more than 1 million acres of Central and Southern…Read more ›

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Mountaintop removal means FEWER mining jobs for Appalachia. We will go into the correlation with poverty, the horrific physical health problems, the desperate need for economic diversification in the region, the permanent aquatic impacts, the other opportunities Appalachian Voices’ and others are fighting for, and how Appalachian …

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RALEIGH, N.C. — Today, Representative Pricey Harrison (D-Guilford) and Appalachian Voices announced the Appalachian Mountains Preservation Act, a bill to end the use of coal obtained from mountaintop removal mining – a controversial form of strip mining.

An environmental group has named a small town in eastern Kentucky the most seriously threatened by Appalachian surface mining, after using new Google mapping technology. Appalachian Voices interactive map released Tuesday shows that mountaintop removal coal mining has been getting closer to communities in Central Appalachia, even with …

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Many families near the mine lacked the economic and political power necessary to prevent the mining that destroyed their backyards and continues to put them and their families at risk. Likewise, the economic and political disadvantage of Central Appalachia helps explain why mountaintop removal continues over the opposition of strong local …

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Matt Wasson, an ecologist with the North Carolina-based environmental group Appalachian Voices, says he hopes Duke's coal ash spill "provides an opportunity for people to think about the whole lifecycle of coal and its terrible impacts on people and the environment." Duke Energy has been a major purchaser of mountaintop removal coal.

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Mountaintop removal is a relatively new type of coal mining that began in Appalachia in the 1970s as an extension of conventional strip mining techniques.

Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia. New York: Riverhead, 2006. Print. TD195.S75 R43 2006 Reece spent a year observing, hiking and recording the devastation to Lost Mountain in Perry Count, eastern Kentucky. He interviewed people, and recorded how a diverse forest …

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