Name: Flashback To 2011: RFK Jr. Tells Stephen Colbert About The Impact Of Coal Mining
Uploaded: 2024-04-19T02:04:44+00:00
Duration: 2 min 21 s
Description: A clip from my 2011 appearance on The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert, in which I spoke about mountaintop removal and the coal industry’s illegal and destructive practices in Appalachia. Over a de

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A clip from my 2011 appearance on The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert, in which I spoke about mountaintop removal and the coal industry’s illegal and destructive practices in Appalachia.

Over a decade later, mountaintop removal caused by coal mining has flattened more than 1 million acres and 500 mountains in the region, and buried thousands of miles of vital Appalachian headwater streams while poisoning many more.