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Seriously, I read it in Grist, not The Onion.
Reminder: In West Virginia a lot of coal is removed by...wait for it...actually removing the tops of the mountains. Below are a few photos I took in the so-called "Mountain State" of mountaintop removal.
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Almost Heaven, they say? Heaven help us.