"In Appalachia, children are 42 percent more likely to have birth
defects if they live near a mountaintop removal coal mine. More people
are likely to die from cardiovascular disease, and 50 percent are more
likely to die of cancer—if they live near one of these sites of utter
destruction. What if those were your loved ones? That is the question posed in a
new video** released today by
Appalachian Voices with a strong message to
President Obama:
No more excuses. End mountaintop removal now.
“Arsenic, mercury, selenium, lead, magnesium, hydrogen sulfide …” are
a few of the toxic compounds the children cite that contribute to a
range of health impacts in the coal-mining regions of Appalachia.
The video was produced by Appalachian Voices for
ILoveMountains.org,
a campaign of a broad coalition of regional groups, the Alliance for
Appalachia, to focus national attention on the tragedy of
mountaintop
removal, which has destroyed more than 500 of America’s oldest mountains
and buried or poisoned more than 2,000 miles of streams."
**Watch the video at:
http://ilovemountains.org/
