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Gore also railed against the mining industry, calling mountaintop-removal mining a "horrible practice" that is "just incredibly harmful to the environment and to people."
FOXNews.com 2011
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One of the more significant direct causes of deforestation in the United States is mountaintop-removal coal mining in the states of West Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina.
Going Paperless Is Not As Green As We Might Think | Impact Lab 2010
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You'll see that she's passionate about ending mountaintop-removal coal mining and shutting down polluting coal-fired plants.
Michael Brune: Five Easy Ways to Get Clean Energy Michael Brune 2011
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You'll see that she's passionate about ending mountaintop-removal coal mining and shutting down polluting coal-fired plants.
Michael Brune: Five Easy Ways to Get Clean Energy Michael Brune 2011
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You'll see that she's passionate about ending mountaintop-removal coal mining and shutting down polluting coal-fired plants.
Michael Brune: Five Easy Ways to Get Clean Energy Michael Brune 2011
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Rather, an email printed on a piece of paper from sustainably sourced wood can help keep areas covered in trees raised for the papermills, whereas reading the same email online could require using power sourced from mountaintop-removal coal-mining.
Going Paperless Is Not As Green As We Might Think | Impact Lab 2010
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To take just one example that passed across my newsreader yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency has now blocked mountaintop-removal coal-mining.
On Washing One’s Hands of the Democrats « Gerry Canavan 2009
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is “objecting to three more federal permits for mountaintop-removal coal mining” in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and West Virginia.
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The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday proposed its first Clean Water Act veto ever for a previously permitted mountaintop removal project, “the largest mountaintop-removal permit in West Virginia history.”
Think Progress » Citing ‘irreversible damage,’ EPA nears veto of mountaintop removal permit. 2010
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You'll see that she's passionate about ending mountaintop-removal coal mining and shutting down polluting coal-fired plants.
Michael Brune: Five Easy Ways to Get Clean Energy Michael Brune 2011
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