Mountaintop Removal Mining – Update

The excellent “Green Energy Reporter” had an item noting a new study on mountaintop removal mining and Stephen Colbert’s take.  There are huge environmental and health impacts associated with coal mining, as I’ve noted a number of times, here and here, among others.

Now a group of scientists, led by the University of Maryland’s Dr. Margaret Palmer, recently presented “…extensive scientific evidence of permanent environmental damage and risks to human health…” in one particularly pernicious coal-extraction method:  mountaintop removal mining.

Here’s Stephen Colbert riffing on MTR mining and talking with Dr. Palmer.