1.0 link 222045 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-cope/almost-hell-west-virginia_b_222045.html John Denver's lyrics "Almost Heaven West Virginia" described the beauty of the Appalachian mountains, one of America's and the world's greatest natural treasures. Vast areas of those same mountains now are a landscape from Hell, as far from Heaven as one can imagine. For the past few days I have had the privilege to be in the Appalachian mountains around Coal River Valley, West Virginia with Daryl Hannah to protest the greatest unnatural disaster in the history of the United...

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