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February 17, 2009

Two Arrested at Mountaintop Coal Removal Site in West Virginia
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In related news, environmental activists here in this country are
intensifying efforts to stop the construction of new coal power plants
and to end the practice of mountaintop coal removal. In West Virginia,
two members of the group Climate Ground Zero were arrested Monday for
interfering with mountaintop removal at a site owned by Massey Energy.
On March 2, a coalition of environmental groups are planning to stage a
large demonstration at the Capitol Coal Plant in Washington, D.C., in
what is expected to be the largest civil disobedience on climate change
in US history.



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