The environmental movement's campaign to save Dollywood and other tacky stuff in ugly Smoky Mountain tourist-trap towns is gaining momentum. As first reported here exclusively at Pith, tree huggers are upset because the coal industry is boycotting Tennessee in retaliation for Lamar Alexander's sponsorship of legislation to ban mountaintop removal mining. So to retaliate against that retaliation, they've decided to come to Tennessee to make up for the lost revenue from the missing coal min
Mountaintop removal is an environmentally devastating method of coal mining. Yet our politicians--both Democrats and Republicans, including Gov. Phil Bredesen--refuse to lift a finger to stop it. Legislation to bar coal companies from blowing up Tennessee mountains fails year after year. In the governor's race, Zach Wamp claims mountaintop removal is good for wildlife, and Ron Ramsey denies the tops have been blown off mountains in this state. We guess no one's shown them pictures like th
