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originally posted at Daily Kos
Mountaintop removal coal mining is the worst environmental tragedy in American history. When will the Obama administration finally stop this Appalachian apocalypse?
So begins an op ed in today's Washington Post. The title is the same as that of this this diary, A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia
The author writes My father visited Appalachia in 1966 and was so horrified by strip mining -- then in its infancy -- that he made it a key priority of his political agenda. He complained that Appalachia, with our nation's richest natural resources, was home to America's poorest populations, its worst education system, and its highest illiteracy and unemployment rates. These statistics are even grimmer today as mining saps state wealth. He bears his father's name.
And if you do nothing else this morning, please stop and read the op ed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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