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Updated: 12:13 PM Oct 30, 2009
Mountaintop Removal Mining Protests Go National
Activists with Mountain Justice,
Rainforest Action Network and other environmental groups are
planning nationwide protests demanding an end to mountaintop
removal mining in Appalachia.
Posted: 12:13 PM Oct 30, 2009 |
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October 30, 2009
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Activists with Mountain Justice,
Rainforest Action Network and other environmental groups are
planning nationwide protests demanding an end to mountaintop
removal mining in Appalachia.
They plan to gather Friday at Environmental Protection Agency
offices and other sites from San Francisco to Atlanta and from
Texas to Maine.
Other targets include a New Jersey office of JPMorgan Chase, a
bank the environmentalists say is the largest financier of the
efficient but destructive form of strip mining.
Protesters in Philadelphia hung a banner from an overpass
Thursday, declaring "Coal is Over."
An online map shows more than two dozen planned events,
including one in Harrisonburg, Va.
It's the third national protest since June.
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