Photo: Vivian Stockman, www.ohvec.org

Cleveland Climate Watch Launches the Cleveland Mountain Justice Project to End Northeast Ohio’s Complicity.

Over 1.4 million acres of the most biologically diverse forest habitat in North America, destroyed and bulldozed into valley fill.  Over 500 mountains are no longer mountains.  Over two thousand miles of headwater streams buried.  Water supplies ruined.  Communities ravaged.  Residents subjected to a witches' brew of air and water pollution.  These are the brutal facts of mountain top removal coal mining in Appalachia and there is a link between all these injustices and energy providers and users in Northeast Ohio.