The Right to Protection in Appalachia
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is correct about mountaintop removal mining ["A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia," op-ed, July 3]. It is a national shame for our government to look the other way while Big Coal decimates Appalachia and its rivers, towns and people. In his book "Big Coal," Jeff Goodell wrote about how the debris that is created by coal companies tearing up the Appalachian Mountains can overwhelm and pollute rivers with a toxic sludge when retention ponds are breached. Such spills sometimes rage through towns, tearing up homes and lives.
Appalachia and the people who live there have a right to be protected, not decimated, while Wall Street and Big Coal steal the wealth.
EVELYN CHORUSH
Houston
