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Thursday, November 12, 2009 10:22 PM

HIGHTOWER: New signs of sanity emerge at the EPA

By JIM HIGHTOWER, Hightower Lowdown

Could it be? Dare we think it? Is it possible the Environmental Protection Agency finally might be getting serious about providing some protection for Appalachia’s environment and people?

For more than a decade, the ancient, serene and beautiful mountains, valleys and streams of central Appalachia literally have been under assault by corporate coal profiteers. Using a brutally destructive mining method called “mountaintop removal,” the corporations explode to bits the top third of mountains to get at the coal. Then they cavalierly bulldoze the resulting rubble and toxic coal waste down the mountainsides, filling the valleys, burying streams, poisoning the water supply and destroying livelihoods.

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