* "We All Live in the Coal Fields": West Virginians Step Up Protests as EPA OKs New Mountaintop Removal *

At least thirty people were arrested in West Virginia Saturday as protesters marked a new phase of Operation Appalachian Spring, a campaign to end mountaintop removal mining. The protests came just a week after the Obama administration gave the green light for forty-two more mountaintop removal permits in a major victory for the coal industry. We speak to journalist Jeff Biggers, author of the book United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture and Enlightenment to America. Biggers says mountaintop removal is a national issue, not a local one, as many perceive.

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http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/29/coal

I haven't been able to watch it.ah maybe should have put under the DN one u posted,  that included your coverage, this one may too by the sounds of it, already posted here and can't delete comments and repost them

http://mobilebroadcastnews.com/MBN/blog/Pettus-Action-Video-TODAYs-Democracy-Now

5 here and there & favored. How about Gore paying the bail, fines, and paying for promotion, seeing as he made so much himself profit wise from a scientist, made the movie, book etc, nobel. There are other large 'green corps' that could; or would dissent and protests be abit much for them to back and fund as well.

oh let's not forget a COUNTERSUIT.

It's not unbelievable the damage they are doing . Unfortunately no surprise. I remember wanting to hitchhike back to BC, to protest with against the loggers. I couldn't make it.