Quakers protest PNC mountaintop removal financing

Published April 23, 2013 7:30pm ET



PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Quaker group and other protesters on Tuesday asked PNC Bank to stop funding projects that use mountaintop removal to produce coal and, if it doesn’t, asked investors to divest from the sixth-largest bank in America.

About 25 protesters held signs and sang hymns outside the annual PNC Financial Services Group Inc. shareholder meeting in downtown Pittsburgh.

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