If you haven’t heard of mountiantop removal, you are about to be in for a shock. Many people do not realize that a large portion of our electricity still comes from coal and that the preferred method for mining coal today involves the literal removal of the tops of mountains in the Appalachians. [...]
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Posted in Energy, Environment, Geography, Maps, tagged Appalachia, Appalachian Mountains, coal, electricity, Kentucky, mountains, mountaintop removal, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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