Mountaintop Removal Causes Health Emergency In Appalachia - Jeff Biggers Discusses

[matthewf]

[matthewf]

1. Source article

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/will-hhs-sec-burwell-be-f_b_5758352.html

[ladjf]

2. The perpetrators couldn't care less. Give me the profit. nt

[Dustlawyer]

3. It's a double edged sword for the people that live there. Push it, the government finds violations

so bad that the mine is shut down and the people are out of work. Don't push it and they are being contaminated, sickened, birth defects, and in many cases death. While you would think they would choose health, it is a slow decline that doesn't appear until later and may be caused by other things.
A similar situation is where I live and in coastal Louisiana where oil is King. Many defended BP and hated Obama for the moratorium on drilling operations while their environment was ruined.
As long as there are no changes in campaign finance to stop the legal bribery, capitalism and the free market, through the coal and oil companies are going to exterminate us all!

[subject]

4. These folks that live there have been lied to

all their lives by mining corporations. I smell the stench of willful ignorance.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

5. These are extremely serious environmental crimes...

... for which responsible parties should be held accountable, and that should mean huge punitive fines and prison terms for some.