Mountaintop mining is under assault from all sides, not just in West Virginia. Read a news story about mountaintop mining from the Virginia-Kentucky-West Virginia area. Joe Lovett, predicts that with a new administration in 2009, mountaintop mining will be eliminated in about a year or so. I doubt it. Joe is an excellent lawyer, but I suspect he's off by a decade or more. Coal is still needed to produce electricity, and mountaintop mining is one of the most cost effective ways to get it.
To get the other perspective, including some of the favorable aspects of mountaintop mining, try this article from the Beckley Register Herald.
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