Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110124:20:51:00
>> well, there's nothing new about mountaintop removing mining. it accelerated during the beginning of the bush administration dramatically. it was made legal for the first time, and since then we've cut down 1.4 million acres, the area the size of delaware flattened. 500 of the biggest mountains in west virginia, and we've buried almost 2,000 miles of rivers and streams. one company, massie coal, and this story is about one of the last big mountains left in the coal fields of west virginia that hasn't been flattened, and there's a group of people who live there who finally said we're not goin...