According to a survey by researchers at Washington State University and West Virginia University, the rate of birth defects in areas near mountaintop removal coal mining is twice as high as in other areas.
So, does mountaintop removal coal mining cause mutant babies?
To be fair, it’s possible that the mountaintop removal coal mining process itself does not cause birth defects. There could be third factors involved. Maybe there’s something else that causes both mountaintop removal coal mining and birth defects… like a general disregard for the clean, healthy living conditions. If that’s the case, mountaintop removal coal mining would be merely a part of a culture of risky, dangerous behavior. Isn’t that reassuring?
Inbreeding, perhaps?
Yeah because that’s what we all do here. stupid bitch.
Just burning the filthy coal these mining operations provide and all the particulates they spew in both the mining and burning processes, not to mention the toxic chemicals that are by-products, places these harmful pollutants into the atmosphere and water sources where they do their damage “unseen.”
There’s no such thing as “clean coal.” It’s marketing (ie. lying to sell a product).
Buddy shut the fuck up i am a coal miner and for 1 you have no clue what your talkin about and for 2 no there isn’t clean coal but the car you drive runs off of a fossil fuel there for your “killin the enviroment”. Your welcome for the electricity douche bag.
Hey James,
Why dont you shut the fuck up? My Dad was a coal miner, he didnt do it because he thought it was a great way to make a living, he did it because he didnt know any other way to feed his family. He knew it was filthy, and he knew he was going to die because of it, and he knew that the mountains that he loved were being destroyed because of it too. He died so that I can possibly have a better chance at life and to say no to the fucking CEO’s that made a fortune by killing my Dad. Take your filthy fucking electricity and shove it up your toothless ignorant fucking ass. I am not so fucking eager to watch my children come out deformed just so a few troglodytes can have a fucking job.