An environmental hero died yesterday and no one seems to be paying attention.

[sabrina 1]

23. Thank you, I did not know about this man but wish I had.

Maybe someone, Michael Moore maybe, could do a documentary on his life and the cause for which he was fighting. The media does not cover these issues, so we have to find other ways of getting the information out there.

How very sad that he had to spend his entire life fighting for something that should be a right, the right to live in peace on his own property.

This was really upsetting to read:

He lived and died on the same property, in the West Virginia mountains, which his family had owned for 200 years, as all the land around him was blasted to smithereens to get to the coal beneath it. And he fought to raise awareness and stop the practice of mountain-top removal mining until the day he died, even as coal supporters shot up his house, killed his dog, ran his truck off the road, and threatened his life almost constantly.

Were any of these thugs ever arrested and charged with the crimes they committed against him, maybe even leading to his death?