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Last week, famous and furious MTR activist Maria Gunnoe traveled to Washington to speak before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on mountaintop removal mining. The hearing was a sham, set up as an occasion for lawmakers to bash the EPA.

But Gunnoe’s trip to Washington took a surreal turn when, just after she finished testifying, she was hauled off by U.S. Capitol Police and accused of possession of child pornography. The photo in question, included in a slide show presentation Gunnoe had prepared for the committee: a five-year-old Kentucky girl taking a bath orange water – water polluted by arsenic and other heavy metals caused by run-off from mountaintop removal mines.