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Red State Road Trip 2: Where Have All the Mountains Gone? (Video – Part 13)

America's fossil fuel fetish continues - in spite of horrendous crimes against the earth. Travel into the belly of West Virginia

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America’s fossil fuel fetish continues – in spite of horrendous crimes against the earth. Travel into the belly of West Virginia, and get a front row seat in the fight against one of the worst environmental atrocities of all: Mountaintop Removal Coal Extraction.

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