Let's End Mountaintop Removal!

NRDC is conducting the email campaign below, to speak out and speak up to end the environmental devastation of MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL ---

Tell your senators to pass the Appalachia Restoration Act and end mountaintop removal mining

Mountaintop removal coal mining is ravaging Appalachian communities and landscapes. This practice clear-cuts forests and flattens mountain peaks, leaving denuded mine sites in its wake. Besides destroying irreplaceable forest habitat, coal companies dump waste material from mountaintop removal mining into adjacent valleys, contaminating drinking water sources for the surrounding communities. More than 1,200 miles of streams and rivers have already been destroyed or seriously polluted by coal mining waste in central Appalachia.

The recently introduced bipartisan Appalachia Restoration Act would stop this destruction to our environment and mining communities. The bill would end the current practice of coal companies receiving permission from the Army Corps of Engineers to destroy southern forests and dump mountaintop removal mining waste into streams and rivers. Passing this critical bill would add to the growing momentum to stop coal companies from ravaging our natural heritage.

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