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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A mountaintop removal coal mine in West Virginia. A new study details the way this type of mining can damage local streams.Orjan F. Ellingvag / Corbis Recent examinations of the health and ...

A flat plateau once damaged by mountaintop removal coal mining has been given a new purpose as the site of a consolidated high school designed to become an educational centre for central Appalachia.

In the wake of the publication of an extremely high-impact article in Science magazine which says that mountaintop removal mining has enormous environmental impacts which can’t possibly be mitigated, ...

The EPA is citing concerns about the harmful effects of mountaintop mining to neighboring bodies of water that are contaminated by the displaced rock. Waste can prevent nearby streams from supporting ...

Experts urge a halt to mountaintop removal mining due to its severe impact on water quality and Appalachian communities' health. Mountaintop removal—the aptly-named mining practice that blasts away ...

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 ...