Just say NO!

Scientists Say Mountaintop Removal Mining Should Be Banned - No Remediation Ever Enough: "
photo: Quinn Dombrowski via flickr.

The EPA may think that approving new mountaintop removal coal mines can be done, provided sufficient remediation steps are taken, but a new article in Science magazine by twelve scientists from institutions from across the United States disagrees. In the mildly-named 'Mountaintop Mining Consequences', the scientists basically say that there's no mitigation effort that can ever make mountaintop mining OK and the practice should be stopped...

Will the "powers" listen? Not when their wallets are filled with coal lobby dollars.