[PCA] NEWS: Scientists call for end to mountaintop removal

[Olivia Kwong]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100108/ap_on_bi_ge/us_mountaintop_mining

Scientists call for end to mountaintop removal
By Vicki Smith, Associated Press Writer -- 41 mins ago

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- A group of scientists called on the federal 
government Thursday to stop mountaintop removal mining, arguing dozens of 
existing studies on the practice prove its ecological impacts are 
"pervasive and irreversible."

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