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A coalition of environmental groups are suing to stop a mountaintop removal coal mining operation in Raleigh County. In the lawsuit filed Friday, Coal…
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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…
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The recent downturn in coal mining has slowed its spread, but mountaintop removal mining has already reached across the coalfields over the past 30…
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On West Virginia Morning, the National Academy of Sciences is beginning a comprehensive study to see if mountain top removal coal mining affects the…
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West Virginia environmental regulators are ordering a company to stop mining permanently at a surface coal mine near Kanawha State Forest.Keystone…
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A $6 million settlement has been reached in federal court that will restore damage from West Virginia mountaintop removal mines.The Sierra Club, Ohio…
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The federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced it will fund a million dollar review of current research on links between…
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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…
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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…
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Federal officials plan to recommend the National Academy of Sciences review a series of studies that have found residents living near mountaintop removal…