{"article":{"id":255496,"heading":"Recent Health Studies Point to Link Between Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Human Illn","author":"Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http","created":"2012-09-10 18:41:12","modified":"2012-09-10 18:41:12","last_modified":"Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:41:12","article":"<p>Recent Health Studies Point to Link Between Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Human Illness <br><br> Interview with Michael Hendryx, professor of health policy management and leadership at West Virginia University, conducted by Melinda Tuhus <br><br> Residents of communities near mountaintop removal coal-mining operations in southern Appalachia suffer higher levels of many kinds of health problems than those living further away from such sites. Mountaintop removal is a mining method where millions of tons of dynamite are used to blast the tops off mountains in order to extract the coal seams beneath, dislodging rocks and earth which are dumped into the valleys below. Thus far, these operations have destroyed 500 mountain ridges and buried 2,000 miles of fresh water streams.   <br><br> Story continues <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btlonline.org\/2012\/seg\/120914cf-btl-hendryx.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.btlonline.org\/2012\/seg\/120914cf-btl-hendryx.html<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"mail(AT)btlonline(DOT)org","link":"Between the Lines c\/o Squeaky Wheel Productions P.O. Box 110176 Trumbull, CT 06611","address":"Between the Lines c\/o Squeaky Wheel Productions P.O. Box 110176 Trumbull, CT 06611","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Interview with Michael Hendryx, professor of health policy management and leadership at West Virginia University, conducted by Melinda Tuhus","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2012\/09\/255496.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}