Be a Mountain Hero: Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining
770 Superdomes could fit onto one mountaintop removal site. That's 10,000 acres of destruction in one mine.
Source: “Coal Controversy in Appalachia,” NASA Earth Observatory, 2007.
$42 billion is the cost of Appalachian coal mining in premature deaths. All of its economic benefits combined total a mere $8 billion.
Source: Ahern, Hendryx, “Mortality in Appalachian Coal Mining Regions: The Value of Statistical Life Lost,” 2009.