Tell Your Representatives to Ban Mountaintop Removal Coal
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In May legislators in North Carolina introduced a bill (H2709) that would ban the use of mountaintop removal coal. Bills like this are vitally important in the fight to end mountaintop removal here in Tennessee, and throughout the Appalachians. Please ask your representatives to look at the text of the North Carolina bill, and introduce a similar bill in Tennessee. Mountaintop removal blasts the top off of the mountains, to allow companies easier access to coal. The process permanently harms the mountains being mined, and debris from mountaintop removal is often dumped in streams or nearby valleys. That debris is linked to major health and environmental dangers. |
