Boone County, W.V. resident Maria Gunnoe is one of the six recipients of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize, which awards grassroots activists $150,000 to “pursue their vision of a renewed and ...

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 Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, in Kentuckians for the Commonwealth v. Army Corps of Engineers, that the scope of review by the Army Corps of Engineers of § 404 permit applications for ...

Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-Minn.), chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said Friday that he’ll wait to see how the Obama administration tackles mountaintop-removal coal mining ...

WASHINGTON - About 100 people were arrested Monday outside the White House while protesting against mountaintop-removal mining, temporarily trading their freedom for a chance to highlight what they ...

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 ...

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WCHS) — A group of West Virginians are on a mission to save part of Coonskin Park. The park is under threat of mountaintop removal for a West Virginia International Yeager ...

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 executive director of Coal River Mountain Watch has put out the word that an informal hearing will be Tuesday regarding a proposed 942-acre mountaintop removal site near Artie between White Oak ...

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), an ardent defender of coal mining in his home state, promised Thursday to fight the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to veto a major mountaintop removal ...