From West Virginia's treasurer, Riley Moore:

We can never let West Virginia look like this! https://t.co/7WTdVrTjjF

— Riley Moore (@RileyMooreWV) April 10, 2022

Especially when it looks like this:

Coal River mountaintop removal site Naoma, WV
((the second image reminds me of antiseptic applied before surgery)) pic.twitter.com/oysAoXr197

— josh morin (@jommorin) September 7, 2020

Riley, have you been to the Cherry Hill area in Ohio County lately? And here are a number of other places in West Virginia that you've apparently missed:

America: Wait, I thought the insane destruction that is mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining was over! Appalachia: Um, no. #endMTR now! This photo taken 04-01-19 of MTR near Charleston, #WV. Thanks to @SouthWings for flyover. pic.twitter.com/NYTxAxn3SF

— OVEC (@OVEC_WV) April 9, 2019

and

We Can Rebuild The Mountain
Mountaintop removal mining
Kayford, WV
> 500 mountains and a million acres of Appalachian old-growth forest have been decimated. The bright green areas are hydro-seed, a fast-growing mixture of grass and fertilizer that sprouts and dies in short order. pic.twitter.com/Adp7FcYxB2

— J Henry Fair (@JHenryFair) June 29, 2021

and

MT @JohnsonRW Exclusive aerial photos reveal destructiveness of WV mountaintop removal mining http://t.co/0bX8cutMKK pic.twitter.com/9yV0GKh6Qd

— Post Carbon Institute (@postcarbon) February 19, 2014

And then there is the damage that has been done to West Virginian's health. (I'll save that for another post.)