We know that strip mining is tearing up the beauty of our state. We know that strip mining is not a good economic future for West Virginia and not a good economic future for our children. And we know that, whatever advantage it has now, the damage that it leave is a permanent damage.
Jay Rockefeller: “We know that strip mining is tearing up the beauty of our state. We know that strip mining is not a good economic future…”
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Rockefeller criticized strip mining's environmental and economic impacts on West Virginia.
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