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"… are.“It’s about a 1-to-1 swap,” said Bob Kincaid, board president of Coal River Mountain Watch, an environmental group. “One dead West Virginian for one mountaintop-re …"

"… r and coal is forever,” Webb said. “They refuse to look at the data.”Coal River Mountain Watch spearheaded a renewable energy campaign in 2009, proposing a wind farm as …"