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Residents Fight in Court to Protect Their Homes and the Streams of Appalachia from Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

September 28, 2007 – 7:04 am

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Groups challenging proposal to bury more streams in West Virginia on heels of recent coEArurt victory
September 26, 2007

Mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia

Photo by V. Stockman/OVEC

Huntington, WV — Boone County residents today asked a federal judge to stop a proposed valley fill at a mountaintop removal operation because it will decimate their community, [...]

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