Nearly half of America’s electricity comes from coal, and much of that coal comes from West Virginia via mountaintop removal, which has drawn criticism for its environmental destructiveness. This report takes correspondent Soledad O’Brien to Blair Mountain, where miners fought police and strikebreakers in 1921. Today environmentalists and local residents (including the great-grandson of a 1921 strike leader) battle to save the mountain from destruction, facing off against community members out to save jobs. Sunday, Aug. 14, at 8 p.m., CNN
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