LEXINGTON, Ky. - About 175 protesters assembled at a park in Lexington to protest a coal industry practice known as mountaintop removal, and at one point offered a dinner of coal slurry to the state coal association's president.
The protest was organized by Mountain Justice Summer at Triangle Park, and was highlighted by a speech from Patsy Carter, whose daughter was killed in May 2000 in a crash with an overweight coal truck.
"She was taken from me out of greed," Carter said. "I will fight for the rest of my life" to keep overweight coal trucks off the roads, she said.
Carter was one of about 20 speakers at the 90-minute rally. <snip>
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