"Almost heaven, West Virginia ..."  An anthem immediately recognizable to millions.  Yet, an anthem under ever mounting threat.   West Virginia, as with much of the world, faces a clear choice between an ever-dirtier fossil fuel path and moving toward a prosperous, climate friendly economy.

While this is a global challenge, in West Virginia the choices are quite stark and, well, quite immediate:

• Mountaintop removal (MTR)  or

• Wind farms on the tops of mountain ridges and within valleys
  

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Front-page of the Metro section is not where readers typical turn to a tall tale suitable for the fiction section, something with an "H" for Horror.

In With Close Contacts, Md. Wind Project Gets Boost, Post readers discover that a well-connected industrialist (Goliath) has run roughshod over concerned environmentalists (the David) through a legislative end run to gut environmental protections for the construction of windmills that will "kill millions" of birds.

A compelling story of a lobbyist-connected Goliath running roughshod over that poor citizen activist David?  Absolutely.

Fact?  Well ... not necessarily.