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Posted: 11:10 AM Oct 30, 2009
Mountaintop Mining Protests Leave WV for National, VA Stage
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) Activists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other environmental groups are planning nationwide protests demanding an end to mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.
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Activists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other environmental groups are planning nationwide protests demanding an end to mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.
They plan to gather Friday at Environmental Protection Agency offices and other sites from San Francisco to Atlanta and from Texas to Maine.
Other targets include a New Jersey office of JPMorgan Chase, a bank the environmentalists say is the largest financier of the efficient but destructive form of strip mining.
Protesters in Philadelphia hung a banner from an overpass Thursday, declaring "Coal is Over."
An online map shows more than two dozen planned events, including one in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
It's the third national protest since June.
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