"Mountaintop removal is a crime--and ought to be treated as a crime." --Al Gore, April 28, 2008

"Mountaintop removal is a crime against local people, nature, our children, and our planet." --Dr. James Hansen, NASA

Consider this: Over 3.5 million pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives rip across the most diverse and oldest mountains in America--and rain down silica dust and heavy metals on residents--in West Virginia alone EVERY DAY.

Consider this: Mountaintop removal provides less than 5-7% percent of our national coal production, at a time when coal demand is down, and mountaintop removal coal could EASILY be replaced by energy efficiency, conservation, renewable energy sources or underground coal.

Consider this: Not one person in the Obama administration involved in this outrageous decision has ever set a foot on a mountaintop removal site.