One man's fight against mountaintop removal

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A West Virginia man wins a small victory, but not the war, against a mining company in the Coal River Valley.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-mining-20101003,0,5891396.story

Few homeowners in Appalachia dare to stand up to coal companies. But Bo Webb did, and achieved the unthinkable: He forced a company to move blasting on a mountaintop-removal strip mining site away from his hollow.

Webb recently went to Washington, D.C., to press the government to shut down mountaintop removal — the practice of blowing up mountains to reach coal seams. Since May, Webb has worked as a leading organizer of Appalachia Rising, the first national mobilization against mountaintop removal.

Then last Monday, an estimated 2,000 people, including several hundred from Appalachia, marched in protest through the capital, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the White House, some with placards bearing the names of decapitated mountains. At the EPA, which enforces laws governing mountaintop removal, they trooped around the building shouting, "Do Your Job, EPA."

Police arrested 114 people in front of the White House for acts of civil disobedience. A few protesters went limp and were dragged off.

[PJPhreak]

1. I love this picture,Dad is Pissed! Go Dad!

[glitch]

2. That is a great picture, K & R nt

[Angry Dragon]

3. But .But .....Rand paul says they have a lot of mountains

and they are flat when they are done so you can build on them.......

[Panaconda]

4. K&R n/t