You may have heard of the protests against mountaintop removal going on in West Virginia all year of which there have been over a dozen (Three examples: 1, 2, and 3). The latest involves a couple WV residents in a tree on a mountaintop removal site in an attempt to halt blasting (laws require that blasting not be done within 3oo feet of people).

You can read the New York Times article on the protest here.

In Virginia 65 mountains have been decapitated (over 180,000 acres of land) and mountaintop removal continues to decimate the ecology and economy of southwest Virginia.