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Message from sender: Mountaintop removal is happening now, and will happen more and more if we don't start using less energy and switching to renewables.

Scientists call for end to mountaintop removal

By VICKI SMITH

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- A group of scientists called on the federal government Thursday to stop mountaintop removal mining, arguing dozens of existing studies on the practice prove its ecological impacts are "pervasive and irreversible."

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