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Selvage speaking at rally on left, photo courtesy of I Love Mountains

Jeff Biggers: Mountaintop Removal Is a National Problem: VA Leader Kathy Selvage on Next Steps for Anti-MTR Movement Jeff Biggers 2011

Selvage speaking at rally on left, photo courtesy of I Love Mountains

Jeff Biggers: Mountaintop Removal Is a National Problem: VA Leader Kathy Selvage on Next Steps for Anti-MTR Movement Jeff Biggers 2011

I caught up with Selvage on her return trip from Washington, D.C., where she had been walking the halls of Congress to support the Clean Water Protection Act.

Jeff Biggers: Mountaintop Removal Is a National Problem: VA Leader Kathy Selvage on Next Steps for Anti-MTR Movement Jeff Biggers 2011

There may be no electricity fairy, but the indefatigable campaigner Kathy Selvage has been described as the clean energy angel from Wise County, in southwest Virginia.

Jeff Biggers: Mountaintop Removal Is a National Problem: VA Leader Kathy Selvage on Next Steps for Anti-MTR Movement Jeff Biggers 2011

Over the past decade, Selvage has been at the forefront of several movements in the central Appalachian coal country to stop reckless mountaintop removal and get the nation at large to understand the true cost of coal -- especially in Virginia: Even with more than 60 mountain ranges and adjacent waterways destroyed by strip-mining, the Virginia state legislature hastily passed a bill in February to strip regulatory controls over proper water monitoring.

Jeff Biggers: Mountaintop Removal Is a National Problem: VA Leader Kathy Selvage on Next Steps for Anti-MTR Movement Jeff Biggers 2011

Everybody here is a small business, said Ron Selvage, owner of the Best Western Hilltop House, the only hotel that was open and filled with firefighters, helicopter pilots and journalists.

Airplane deployed to monitor air over N.M. fire 2011

There may be no electricity fairy, but the indefatigable campaigner Kathy Selvage has been described as the clean energy angel from Wise County, in southwest Virginia.

Jeff Biggers: Mountaintop Removal Is a National Problem: VA Leader Kathy Selvage on Next Steps for Anti-MTR Movement Jeff Biggers 2011

Everybody here is a small business, said Ron Selvage, owner of the Best Western Hilltop House, the only hotel that was open and filled with firefighters, helicopter pilots and journalists.

Airplane deployed to monitor air over N.M. fire 2011

I caught up with Selvage on her return trip from Washington, D.C., where she had been walking the halls of Congress to support the Clean Water Protection Act.

Jeff Biggers: Mountaintop Removal Is a National Problem: VA Leader Kathy Selvage on Next Steps for Anti-MTR Movement Jeff Biggers 2011