They dumped the debris in the Drews' yard, in a box on which Tina had spray-painted "Merry Christmas".
An expeditious and disruptive form of surface mining, it involves blasting off the tops of mountains and dumping the debris in valleys and streams below.
One lone worker clambers over the rubble to collect an armful of bricks before walking down and dumping the debris on the ground, only to repeat the endless, empty exercise.
Until now, PNC had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in companies that extract coal by blowing up mountains and dumping the debris in streams.
Mountaintop removal, which provides a mere 7percentt of the nation's coal, is done by clear-cutting forests, blowing the tops off of mountains, and then dumping the debris into streambeds -- an undeniably catastrophic way of mining.
That's last month's fiasco where the contractor for the village, who can now sit next to the Defendant Jenkins in court, was caught illegally dumping the debris.
So Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander has introduced legislation in the Senate that would prevent coal companies from blasting the tops off of Appalachian Mountains and dumping the debris into mountain streams, a hideous mining method called "mountaintop removal" that is, unfortunately, widespread in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky.
Then, turn it over and dump out the debris, or "dottle," into an ashtray.
"When I first went to the top of the landfill to dump my debris, I knew that this view -- of Manhattan, the North Shore and Jones Beach -- was too good not to share," said Mr. Pitti.
The noise created by the trucks dumping debris on the street near the school and by the cranes loading it onto the barges is considerable.
