Prenter

You have little communities in West Virginia, a little town outside called Prenter, where 97 percent of the people have some sort of gallbladder disease.

Democracy Now! 2009

"Prenter," suggested the president of the company, "what do you say if you and I prowl in some other direction?

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The tombstone of 22-year-old Joshua McCormick -- who succumbed to kidney cancer in 2009 in the Prenter Hollow area in West Virginia, one of the most lethal coal slurry-contaminated and Clean Water Act-violated places in the nation -- remains a landmark no less important than Blair Mountain in the government's failure to enforce the Clean Water Act.

Jeff Biggers: Blair Mountain Emergency: Obama Is Obliged by Deathtoll to Order Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Jeff Biggers 2011

The tombstone of 22-year-old Joshua McCormick -- who succumbed to kidney cancer in 2009 in the Prenter Hollow area in West Virginia, one of the most lethal coal slurry-contaminated and Clean Water Act-violated places in the nation -- remains a landmark no less important than Blair Mountain in the government's failure to enforce the Clean Water Act.

Jeff Biggers: Blair Mountain Emergency: Obama Is Obliged by Deathtoll to Order Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Jeff Biggers 2011

A nice staffer will pick up the phone (not Rep. Rahall) -- politely ask to leave a message for Rep. Rahall asking him to help the people in Rawl and Prenter get clean safe water.

Dave Cooper: Coal Waste in Rep. Nick Joe Rahall's Water 2009

Does he mean regulated in the same manner as the coal waste injection that has allegedly caused the colorful water problems in Rawl and Prenter, West Virginia?

Dave Cooper: Coal Waste in Rep. Nick Joe Rahall's Water 2009

The photo on the right of a child in Prenter, West Virginia, is the lead photo of a remarkable piece of reporting from the New York Times that provides a lot of insight into the awful tragedies faced daily by families in Appalachia who are forced to drink and bathe in water polluted with coal waste.

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According to the Gazette article, registered nurse Pam Johnson said 98 percent of adults interviewed in the Prenter area have gallbladder disease.

Dave Cooper: Coal Waste in Rep. Nick Joe Rahall's Water 2009

It's easier to compromise with King Coal representatives inside the comfort zone of the Beltway, than in one coal-slurry contaminated area around Prenter, West Virginia, for example, where 98 percent of the residents have had their gall bladder removed.

Jeff Biggers: Mr. King Coal's Neighborhood: Washington DC, Won't You Be My Neighbor? 2009

"The tragedy in Prenter and other Appalachian communities is that folks had good water, then over a period of time, their water gradually degraded to the point where it is obviously not fit for bathing, much less cooking and drinking ... they have been unknowingly exposed to high levels of metals that have well-known human consequences."

Dave Cooper: Coal Waste in Rep. Nick Joe Rahall's Water 2009