Mountaintop Coal Mining Leads to Birth Defects, Respiratory Illness and Other Health Problems
Eleanor J. Bader, RH Reality Check: 'As mountaintop removal [MTR] has horned-in on underground mining, the health maladies of residents of eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and southwest West Virginia - Appalachia - have begun to pile up. Here s why. MTR requires the use of explosives to reach coal streams, a process that makes it even more perilous than underground mining... But that s not all: Later, chemically treated liquids are used to wash the coal and, more often than not, this brew ends up in groundwater.'
http://www.truth-out.org/stoking-fire-mountaintop-coal-mining-leads-birth-defects-respiratory-illness-and-other-health-proble
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mountaintop
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Appalachia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Eleanor+J.+Bader
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http://www.truth-out.org/stoking-fire-mountaintop-coal-mining-leads-birth-defects-respiratory-illness-and-other-health-proble
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=mountaintop
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Appalachia
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Eleanor+J.+Bader
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Starmail - 4. Sep, 22:02
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