"Following the news that EPA would let 42 mountaintop mining operations proceed in Appalachia, protesters took to three West Virginia mining sites on Saturday, chaining themselves to giant coal trucks, draping a sign on a coal sludge pond, and taking a public stand against a practice that is threatening their homes and devastating their mountains."
"“They left a banner on top of 7 billion gallons of toxic waste and they got charged with littering,” Noerpel said."
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20090524/17-arrested-west-virginia-protesting-mountaintop-mining
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