by J.D. CHARLES, Staff Writer, and MICHAEL BROWNING, Managing Editor
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Miners worried about large-scale unemployment and economic devastation took a stand this morning in response to a federal judge’s ruling that has halted some strip mining in Logan County.
More than three dozen miners and family members were present for a special press conference at the County Commission hearing room in which the Logan County Commission expressed their support for miners and their disdain of the ruling.
In March, U.S. District Judge Chuck Chambers, a Matewan native, rescinded four valley fill permits