Photo: Mountaintop Mining Raises Debate in Coal Country

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A mountaintop-removal coal mine in Wyoming County, West Virginia.

The recent Sago mine accident in West Virginia has stoked an ongoing debate in Appalachia over the practice of removing mountaintops to get to coal beds more safely.

Photograph courtesy Stagg Resource Consultants

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