Verizon Wireless Supports Big Coal and Mountain Top Destruction
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Verizon Supports the Mining Practices of Massey EnergyPosted by: BethBotimage credit: appvoices.org
It has recently come to the attention of the environmental community that phone service giant Verizon Wireless is quietly supporting a pro-coal, anti-environment rally on Labor Day.
"It's called the Friends of America Rally and over 70,000 people have already RSVPed to attend a political event to promote climate change denial and mountaintop removal mining. Massey Energy, a dirty coal company and the most egregious violator of the Clean Water Act in history, is the moving force behind the event" (From CREDO Action).
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