Asheville Citizen Times; 1/26/2012
Excerpt:   “Pollution, coal mining and natural gas exploration have put the Chesapeake Bay, North Carolina’s Piedmont and the mountains of Tennessee and Virginia on an environmentalgroup’s list of most endangered places in the Southeast.
The Southern Environmental Law Center released its fourth annual “Top 10 Endangered Places” on Thursday. Among the other entries and the threats are the Alabama coast, jeopardized by oil exploration; South Carolina’s Savannah River, by a shipping channel; and Tennessee’s Chilhowee Mountain, by a four-lane highway……”
Read entire article at http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20120127/NEWS01/301270023/NC-regions-land-list-most-endangered-places