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Coal mining clothing hangs for sale on the side of the road near Seth, West Virginia. For hundreds of years, coal has economically sustained the coalfield communities across this state and the rest of Appalachia. But in recent years, it has become…

A coal powered plant in eastern Kentucky. Coal-burning plants are the largest U.S. source of carbon dioxide pollution -- producing 2.5 billion tons every year -- a leading cause of global warming.

Rhonda McCormick flushes out her son's catheter as she cares forÊhim in their home in Prenter, WV. Josh was diagnosed with kidney cancer and is one of the many residents of this small town who haveÊhad kidney issues, gallbladder problems, or some…

Children play in a mountain stream in front of their home that sits near mountaintop removal sites in eastern Kentucky. ÊMiles of streams have been contaminated by the run-off from mountaintop removal sites: as the rainwater runs down the now-bare…

Erica and Rully Urias must bathe their daughter, Makayla, age 5, in contaminated water that is the color of tea. Their water has been tested and contains high levels of arsenic. The family attributes this water problem primarily to the blasting which…

A Walmart sits on an old mountaintop removal site in Logan, West Virginia. This is one example of what the coal industry says is a benefit of mountaintop removal mining -- once the mining is done, there is flat land on which to develop another…

A mountaintop removal mine site in eastern Kentucky. Throughout the Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia, over 500 mountains encompassing nearly a million acres have been blown up, destroying the hemisphere's oldest…

THE HUMAN TOLL: MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL IN APPALACHIA Over the last forty years, mountaintop removal coal mining has buried nearly 2,000 miles of mountain streams, and destroyed more than a million acres of forest while blowing up mountains to extract…

Nkosinami (9yrs) finds partial shelter from the rain under the roof of a shop not far from the clump of trees he uses for shelter . He lives with a group of homeless boys who all share a common addiction for glue sniffing. Location, Fietas…

Three of the boys who are part of a group of nine homeless kids approach the inhabitants of a vehicle for possible handouts, they sometimes sit and beg on the streets till late at night depending on how much thay have made during the course of a…