Breaking: Coalfield Uprising Grows, More Sit-ins: Will Feds Take Down WVA's Embarrassing DEP?

This might be a first in the country: The failed West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is emerging as such an embarrassingly pro-coal anti-mountain public relations nightmare for Gov. Joe Manchin that even retired coal miners have taken to the streets against the state's environmental regulators, calling on the federal EPA and Office of Surface Mining to take over the key duties of the dysfunctional state agency.

The uprising in the Appalachian coalfields against failed state government action on mining policy is growing -- today, coalfield residents took their protests directly to ground zero of the state's regulatory failure.

Following 12 previous protests and civil disobedience actions in the Appalachian coalfields this spring and summer, a contingent of four protesters locked themselves to the WV DEP doorsin Charleston, WV in a nonviolent sit-in. Four protesters were reportedly arrested.

more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/breaking-coalfield-uprisi_b_256415.html

Meanwhile, the coal baron is shipping in Hannity and friends to rally for mountaintop removal
http://wvablue.com/diary/4834/the-coalfield-don-brings-in-hannity-and-washedup-friends-to-rally-for-mtr

No surprise in what he'd doing to the people of his state. Happy karma, Joe.

despite his selling the party out and backing the GOP in 1996, when he was being a sore loser after the primaries
Manchin is the worst

Routinely selling this state to the coal interests.