In August, 2007, The Office of Surface Mining in the Interior Department issued a draft revision to the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977. The Act governs the practice of "mountaintop ...

Last weekend a group of Virginia Tech students and Blacksburg community members took a trip to the mountains of West Virginia. They were not there to camp or hike, but to hear from one man about the ...

WASHINGTON - The Interior Department said Wednesday it will more closely monitor and review state-approved permits for mountaintop coal mining and also tighten the federal permitting process to better ...

Recent examinations of the health and environmental impacts of mountaintop mining – stripping the tops off of mountains to extract coal – has the practice looking pretty guilty. It apparently spikes ...

Hendryx, along with other scientists, has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed journal articles on the health impacts. Other research on the mining practice includes last year’s U.S. Geological ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Ashley Judd is calling for an end to the mining practice known as mountaintop removal. The Kentucky native was among some 500 people who gathered outside the Kentucky state Capitol on ...

VICCO, Ky. -- -- VICCO, Ky. -- Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets his porch and car if a few days go by without rain.

The Obama administration is imposing new measures designed to better protect streams from mountaintop removal coal mining, similar to this one on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia, a move the ...

The Obama administration will announce plans today to tighten scrutiny of mountaintop coal mining, in an effort to reduce environmental damage from operations that shear off peaks and fill Appalachian ...

Mountaintop removal is, after all, about perspective. To companies, it's the most efficient or only way to reach coal reserves. To folks living nearby, it's the destruction of majestic scenery and the ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took overdue action last week when it suspended an expedited permitting process for stream dumping of waste from mountaintop mining in Virginia and several other ...