On this show we speak with David Novack, documentary director of Burning the Future: Coal in America.
This destructive practice, known as mountaintop-removal mining, has damaged or destroyed nearly 2,000 miles of streams and threatens to destroy 1.4 million acres of mountaintops and forests by 2020. The mining poisons drinking water, destroys beautiful, biodiverse forests and wildlife habitat, increases the risk of flooding, and wipes out entire communities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_the_Future:_Coal_in_America