Miners and conservationists face off in West Virginia over mountain top removal

Just weeks after blasting began on West Virginia's Coal River Mountain, the Federal EPA halted what would have been the state's largest Mountain Top Removal mine project on a nearby peak. Seventy-nine other Mountain Top Removal permits are being held up pending further environmental studies. Surface miners and Appalachian conservationists - many of them miners or miners families are facing off in the legislature and in the streets. Evan Davis filed this report from Charleston.