This is an online 20 minute video produced by Yale Environment 360 in cooperation with Mediastorm. It's well worth watching to become better educated about this environmentally destructive practice.
From the Yale Environment 360 blog post:
"During the last two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has destroyed or severely damaged more than a million acres of forest and buried nearly 2,000 miles of streams. Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining, a video report produced by Yale Environment 360 in collaboration with MediaStorm, focuses on the environmental and social impacts of this practice and examines the long-term effects on the region’s forests and waterways."
