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Tweet Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Project
Nearly half of America’s energy supply comes from burning coal, and at least 5 percent of that coal comes from the incredibly toxic and destructive process...
South African Mining Groups Doing Well In South America
South America is a continent whose richness in natural resources became legendary through myths such as El Dorado or the Emerald Mountain. Neither of these ever existed, of course, but today the continent produces antimony, bauxite, coal, cobalt, copper, gold, iron-ore, lead, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, phosphates, platinum, silver, tantalum, tin, titanium, tungsten, uranium, zinc and zirconium, plus oil and gas, as well as a wide range of precious and semiprecious stones.
As Massey Energy Blasts West Virginia’s Coal River Mountain, a Debate on Mountaintop Removal Mining
There have been a number of recent developments around the controversial practice of mountaintop removal coal mining, wherein coal companies remove the tops of mountains with explosives. Last week, the Obama administration indicated it will not immediately cancel Bush-era changes to a rule protecting streams from mountaintop removal mining.
EPA Halts Largest Arch Coal Mountaintop Mining Permit
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday put the brakes on an Arch Coal Inc. (ACI) operation in West Virginia, the first time in 37 years the agency has used its power to hold up a previously issued mountaintop mining permit.
EPA Announces Major Science Review Of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
The Obama administration is quietly putting together plans for a major new scientific study of the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining.
On Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency published a notice seeking nominations for scientists to serve on an ad hoc panel to “provide expert advice to the EPA on a draft assessment of the ecological impacts” of mountaintop removal.