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Barbara Boxer: “Mountaintop removal coal mining has already destroyed more than 500 mountains, buried more than 2,000 miles of headwater…”

On the recordFebruary 2, 2016
Mountaintop removal coal mining has already destroyed more than 500 mountains, buried more than 2,000 miles of headwater streams, and polluted thousands of miles of downstream surface waters.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Boxer highlights the environmental destruction caused by mountaintop removal mining.

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