Support Threatened Appalachian Mountains

 

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  4 (Goal: 5,000)

Petitioning: Environment Council

Petitioner: Kayla day started on February 23, 2009

Join the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal at the Appalachian Mountains


A panel of federal judges has ruled in favor of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a controversial mountaintop removal mining legal case.

The ruling will permit mining companies to conduct devastating mountaintop removal coal mining operations without acting to minimize stream destruction or conducting adequate environmental reviews.

As a result, Appalachia could now be facing up to 100 new mountaintop removal coal mining permits, which would destroy huge swaths of the Appalachian Mountains.