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Some banks stop funding mountain top removal
2014-05-31 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Livingo on Earth: Coal companies have stripped the tops of mountains in Appalachia in search of the fuel. But as Amanda Starbuck tells host Steve Curwood, the Rainforest Action Network has helped convince some of the world's biggest banks to stop funding companies that practice destructive Mountain Top Removal. Transcript CURWOOD: It's Living on Earth, I'm Steve Curwood. The coal industry is under fire in the US from several directions, ranging from calls to pull investments from fossil fuels to proposed federal...
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