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A new Web-based tool allows U.S. residents to learn how their local
electricity consumption may be linked to the destruction of landscapes in the
Appalachia region of the eastern United States. With “My
Connection,” a feature from North Carolina-based Appalachian Voices, users
can enter their ZIP codes and use Google Earth to view the decimated mountains
from which their power provider obtains coal. “When you can show people they
have a direct connection to it, it makes it that much more relevant to their
day-to-day life,” Mary Anne Hitt, the executive director of Appalachian Voices,
told the Wall Street Journal.
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