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 ...

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 ...

The coal industry has been harshly criticized in recent years over the mining process known as “mountaintop removal.” Environmentalist critics have gotten all the attention and given mountaintop ...

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 ...

Does mountaintop mining in Central Appalachia, including Eastern Kentucky, harm the people living nearby? The Trump administration scrapped a study that would have found whether that was so. Now ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Mountaintop removal coal mining will not be banned in Tennessee, at least not for now. A bill proposing to stop the practice failed in a state senate committee today.The legislation ...

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 ...