iLoveMountains.org Mountaintop Removal Slideshow

Mountain near Rawl, West Virginia

Pickering Knob, West Virginia

Kayford Mountain, West Virginia

Largely hidden from most Americans, a highly destructive form of coal mining called mountaintop...

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As shown here, mountaintop removal systematically blasts apart and dismantles entire mountaintops to...

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Despite the massive scale of these operations, they are almost impossible to see from the ground....

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Title shot of the National Memorial for the Mountains

Mountaintop removal mine in New York City, New York!

Boone and Logan Counties, WV, circa 1983

Organizations in Appalachia have begun using cutting-edge technology to communicate the massive...

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The National Memorial for the Mountains was created in Google Earth because it provides...

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The Memorial shows images of areas before and after mountaintop removal. This Google Earth image of...

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Boone and Logan Counties, WV, circa 2004

Clinch River Power Plant

Ed Wiley marching to the Capitol

These satellite images show the same area 20 years later, with mountaintop removal well underway....

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Most of the coal from mountatintop removal mines is used to generate electricity. In the US, 51% of...

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In addition to using high-tech tools, the people of Appalachia are also using age-old methods to...

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Overview of Marsh Fork Elementary School

Rep. Frank Pallone Speaks with Mary Anne Hitt and Kathy Selvage

Near Blair Mountain, West Virginia

Marsh Fork Elementary in Sundial, W.Va., is on the front lines of mountaintop removal, located 150...

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Congress has responded by taking up the mountaintop removal issue. At the press conference marking...

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By preventing the dumping of heavy metal-laden mining waste into streams such as this one, near...

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This is a photo of a Mountaintop Removal site at Mt Olive in West Virginia This photo was sent...

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This is a photo of a baptist church just a few miles down the road from a Mountaintop Removal site...

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This is a photo of the Coal River Mountain Watch rally against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining on...

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