Verison Wireless To Unveil New Sport Featuring Its New Anti-Environmental Stance

by: One Citizen

Wed Sep 02, 2009 at 16:41:02 PM EDT

"Total mortality rates are higher in coal-mining areas compared to other areas of Appalachia and the nation," Hendryx said. "The incidence of mortality has been consistently higher in coal-mining areas for as long as Centers for Disease Control rates are available, back to 1979."

Total mortality data for West Virginia suggests there are 313 excess deaths every year from coal-mining pollution.  source

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