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This sounds like a very creative and effective use of Google Earth as an environmental advocacy tool. 

Environmental advocacy group Appalachian Voices has joined to Google to deliver a special interactive layer for Google Earth that tells the stories of over 470 mountains that have been destroyed from coal mining, and its impact on nearby ecosystems.

I hope their layer includes links to ways to take action.

2 Responses to “Highlighting Mountaintop Removal Mining with Google Earth”

  1. jrudian says:

    Check out this great victory we had last week in federal court. A judge threw out 5 mountaintop removal mining permits, putting in doubt the government’s ability to legally permit the more than 60 pending MTR permits in Appalachia. Learn more at: http://www.stopmountaintopremoval.org/breaking-news.html

  2. [...] Eight steps forward… six steps back. Do we really need to dig up mountains for uranium instead of decapitating them for coal? [...]

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