Mountaintop Removal Rally in Washington

Activists gather in Lafayette Park near the White House during a rally against mountaintop removal coal mining. The sign refers to Judy Bonds, a mountaintop removal activist who died of cancer Jan. 3, 2012, aged 58.

Unique identifier: GP049BI

Type: Image

Shoot date: 13/09/2012

Locations: North America, United States of America, Washington, D.C.

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Robert Meyers

Size: 5616px × 3744px 12MB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Mountaintop Removal Rally in Washington

Activists hold signs outside the White House during a rally to deliver 13,500 photo petitions to the White House's Council on Environmental Quality to stop mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. The rally became a memorial to Larry Gibson, a longtime and outspoken opponent of mountaintop removal mining, who lived on Kayford Mountain on land in his family for more than 200 years as coal companies removed the mountain above his home for coal.

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