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theHandpuppet

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12. The Human Cost of Coal

Mon Jun 2, 2014, 09:15 PM

Jun 2014

ilovemountains.org
The Human Cost of Coal
Mountaintop Removal's Effect on Health and the Economy

There’s a common saying in Appalachia: what we do to the land, we do to the people. Recently, 21 peer-reviewed scientific studies have confirmed the truth of those words. Not only has mountaintop removal permanently destroyed more than 500 Appalachian mountains, but people living near the destruction are 50% more likely to die of cancer and 42% more likely to be born with birth defects compared with other people in Appalachia.

Data used in these studies are presented in the interactive map at this link: http://ilovemountains.org/the-human-cost

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