Moving Mountains: The battle for justice comes to the fields of Appalachia
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NOT SINCE THE GLACIERS PUSHED toward these ridgelines a million years ago have the Appalachian Mountains been as threatened as they are today. But the coal-extraction process decimating this landscape, known as mountaintop removal, has generated little press beyond the region.
From Orion Online (January/February 2006).
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