Mountaintop Removal

A coalition of environmental groups are suing to stop a mountaintop removal coal mining operation in Raleigh County. In the lawsuit filed Friday, Coal…

The region just lost a powerhouse of environmental science and advocacy with the death of professor Benjamin Stout. Stout’s work as an educator, an expert…

The recent downturn in coal mining has slowed its spread, but mountaintop removal mining has already reached across the coalfields over the past 30…

On West Virginia Morning, the National Academy of Sciences is beginning a comprehensive study to see if mountain top removal coal mining affects the…

West Virginia environmental regulators are ordering a company to stop mining permanently at a surface coal mine near Kanawha State Forest.Keystone…

A $6 million settlement has been reached in federal court that will restore damage from West Virginia mountaintop removal mines.The Sierra Club, Ohio…

The federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced  it will fund a million dollar review of current research on  links between…

The Catholic Committee of Appalachia just published a pastoral letter. It’s the third of its kind. Forty years ago the first was written and acclaimed as…

Coal production from mines using mountaintop removal has decreased 62% from 2008 to 2014.  That figure was released this week by the U.S. Energy…

Federal officials plan to recommend the National Academy of Sciences review a series of studies that have found residents living near mountaintop removal…