Washington, D.C. Region Buying More Appalachian Coal
Charleston Daily Mail › April 23, 2008
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Washington, D.C. Region Buying More Appalachian Coal
MUD. This is a place where moving mountains is no longer a figure of speech. Among the steep green Appalachians, mining companies are moving mountains off their pedestals to get the kind of coal that Washington needs. It happened here, on a ridgeline called Sugar Tree Mountain, where locals once hunted for squirrels and puckery sour grapes. Then, the top was scraped off to expose the black seams in its innards, leaving a rock-strewn plateau. It use...
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