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Young Dems Convention Paid For By Coal Company Alpha Natural Resources
10:04 am in appalachia, Business & Politics, climate change effects, coal, mountaintop removal mining, News by TreeHugger
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Coal may be Public Enemy Number 1 when it comes to stopping climate chaos and eliminating air and water pollution, but the industry isn't going down without a fight. An interesting blog at WeArePowerShift.org details a young activist's disappointment when she discovered that the 2011 Young Democrats Convention was sponsored, in part, by Alpha Natural Resources, the operator of Massey Energy, the notorious company behind several m...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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