By Erik Ness
Dianne McFarland Bady '72, the founder of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, has marshaled her forces to fight mountaintop removal mining, a process decried as ravaging the environment. If the practice continues, Bady believes, the southern coal fields in West Virginia could become “basically uninhabitable” within four years.
See what's going on at OVEC.
Of course, coal mining plays an important role in the Appalachian economy. Check out Friends of Coal and the West Virginia Coal Association.
Dianne McFarland Bady '72, the founder of the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, has marshaled her forces to fight mountaintop removal mining, a process decried as ravaging the environment. If the practice continues, Bady believes, the southern coal fields in West Virginia could become “basically uninhabitable” within four years.
See what's going on at OVEC.
Of course, coal mining plays an important role in the Appalachian economy. Check out Friends of Coal and the West Virginia Coal Association.
