Why the Democratic Party Platform Should Call for End to Mountaintop Removal Mining

alternet.org — The Democrats have nothing to lose.  And everything to gain--especially the health and lives of residents in the coal mining areas of central Appalachia.   Calling it "Judy's plank," in honor of beloved West Virginia mountaineer Judy Bonds, whose untimely death in 2011 served as a wakeup call to the mounting humanitarian and health care crises from mountaintop removal mining, the Democratic Party platform should officially include a commitment for an immediate moratorium on the devastating form of strip mining at their national convention in Charlotte on September 4th.

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