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Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Decimates Fish Populations in Appalachia

2014-07-10 14:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: A study from researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) published this month provides strong new evidence that mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia is devastating downstream fish populations. Thats hardly news for long-time followers of the controversy surrounding mountaintop removal, a coal mining practice that involves blowing off the tops of mountains to access thin seams of coal and dumping the waste into valleys below. In 2010, a group of 13 prestigious biologists published...

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