Alabama Coal Miner Delivers Emotional Testimony
...of the hundreds of testimonies Yellowhammer witnessed over the last two days, one stood head and shoulders above the rest.
Walter Parker is a life-long coal miner who came to the hearings along with some of his fellow miners looking for a chance to have his voice heard by the seemingly faceless EPA bureaucracy that is threatening to extinguish the only life he’s ever known.
When he got his chance to speak, he didn’t yell, but his carefully chosen words and genuine emotion spoke louder than any environmental activist with a bull horn did this week.