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Article: AUTHORS ADDRESS MOUNTAINTOP COAL MINING OCT. 12 AT PELLISSIPPI STATE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 6, 2009
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 5 -- Pellissippi State Technical Community College issued the following news release:
It's forever been said that the pen is mightier than the sword. These days, it's a computer rather than paper upon which the battle is staged, and Silas House and Jason Howard are fighting with every tap to the keyboard.
The two are writers, and they have an enemy: mountaintop removal mining. They're using the written word to confront the controversial mining method, which blasts off the tops of mountains to access the coal beneath.
Pellissippi State Community College is bringing the two co-authors of "Something's Rising: Appalachians Fighting Mountaintop Removal" to the college ...