In addition, activists stepped up pressure to end the practice of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. (coalswarm.org)
The President's climate commitment gives us great hope that he will finally address some of the remaining, worst abuses of the fossil fuel industry, including dirty and dangerous fracking, ending the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia, rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, halting destructive oil drilling in the Arctic, and overhauling the sweetheart deal on public lands that pads the bottom line of coal companies at public expense. (blogs.sierraclub.org)
Roughly 1.2 million acres, including 500 mountains, have been flattened by mountaintop removal coal mining in the central Appalachian region. (ilovemountains.org)