This year, a 3-year-old girl will be crowned “Coal Princess” in West Virginia. Seriously.

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By Jim MeyerJun 13, 2014, 11:12 am62 ptsTrending
I don’t know about you, but when I think about deforesting a lush mountaintop, blasting the mountain to nothing, grinding the very stones to pulp, and separating out the remains into coal and black slurry, I think beauty. And apparently I’m not the only one. In a world where beauty pageants are going the…

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