NASA Photos Reveal True Impact of Mountaintop Removal Mining

Satellite photos recently released by NASA illustrate the real impacts of mountaintop removal (MTR) mining in Appalachia. They were taken between 1984 and 2009 at the Hobet mine site in Boone County, West Virginia. You can see through the time lapse the scale of the deforestation that has taken place, followed by the leveling of [...]