In respect to all of the families that have to live the trauma known as mountaintop removal our so called state leaders should be ashamed of themselves for their actions against their own people. People throughout Appalachia have been sacrificed for the coal that WV state leaders have taken undue ownership of. If coal is so good for us why is it killing us? Some that don’t have to live in this terror have no idea what its like. Living and dying underneath exploding mountains with pollution in our air and water is nothing but violent. Our children are devastated to see their home lands being destroyed forever. The coal industry and our government are so arrogant that they are blatant enough to TRY to brainwash our kids into thinking that coal is good for them.

The EPA’s actions are based on science. This science has proven that what the residents of WV have said for many years is true. Coal is killing us! In ignoring the facts, our leaders continue to talk about how cheap it is. All the while more of us suffer and die everyday. All of our state leaders need to take ownership of what they are allowing to happen to their own people. Shame on them! We have a right to be who we are and to live where we are at. The industry and Government has no right to continue to kill us and to rob us of our futures for out of state jobs and profit. Stop the violence against your own people. The world is watching.