See the link to 'App Voices' on the right side of this page to access their website and the studies mentioned below. And then call your congresspersons state and federal and tell them about it! You'll find the numbers at the bottom of the page. Below is an excerpt from the latest App Voices website.
Mapping the Human Cost of Coal
According to 21 new scientific studies, people living near mountaintop removal and other types of coal mines suffer higher cancer rates, more birth defects, and have shorter life spans than other people in Appalachia.
Check out the new interactive health mapping feature on iLoveMountains.org or read summaries of the key findings of these 21 studies and you’ll understand why Appalachian people have long been saying: “What we do to the land, we do to the people.”
[ Check out the map and read summaries of the studies on iLoveMountains.org ]
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