Illegal coal mining in Kentucky

Ugh - one of our press folks alerted me to this terrible story, and I'm glad now that it's getting some play on the Web. A mining company in Kentucky went ahead destroyed an entire mountaintop in Pike County for coal.....all without a Clean Water Act permit. After they were done completely leveling the landscape, polluting the water around it (much of which served as a drinking water source for the community of Pikeville) - then they told the Army Corps of Engineers.

Read more about it in this post over at Daily Kos. It is truly stunning.

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[ArabBible]

i'm delighted you brought this issue to our attention