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Mountaintop Removal is Getting More Attention

David Orr is the man, and this is an awesome article from the Cleveland Plain Dealer:

Optimism is growing for the first time about curtailing mountaintop mining in Appalachia.

That’s the feeling of David Orr, who heads the environmental-studies program at Oberlin College.

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Raised on the banks of the Tennessee River, JW's work to create progress in his home state and throughout Appalachia has been featured on the Rachel Maddow Show, The Daily Kos and Grist. He served first as Appalachian Voices’ Legislative Associate and then Tennessee director until leaving to pursue a career in medicine in 2012.


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