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Mongabay: Environmental degradation can have major impacts on a community's quality of life and a new interactive map of mountaintop mining for coal in the U.S. makes this abundantly clear: based on 21 scientific studies, the map highlights how communities near mountaintop mining have lower life expectancy, higher birth defects, worsening poverty, and are more likely to suffer from cancer, as well as heart and respiratory disease. Created by the non-profit Appalachian Voices and posted on ilovemountains.org,......
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Interactive map reveals the human cost of mountaintop mining
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 21st, 2012
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