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A sixth-generation resident of the Coal River Valley in West Virginia, Bo is a co-founder of the ACHE Campaign to get the Appalachian Community Health Emergency (ACHE) Act passed by Congress. Learn more about Bo.

An aerial view of Marsh Fork Elementary School in 2006.
August 27, 2014

ACHE Act: A Way to End Mountaintop Removal Mining

By Bo Webb  /  Headquarters Office

Coalfield residents living near mountaintop removal mining sites have long suspected this terrible, destructive practice is hurting our health.
I first started thinking about it during the long fight to replace the Marsh Fork Elementary School, which sat at the foot of a huge mountaintop removal mining site near my home in Peachtree Hollow.