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 ...

A few weeks ago, while families in Utah grieved for loved ones lost in an unsafe coal mine, the Bush administration responded by handing the coal industry a much-anticipated present. His Office of ...

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 ...

As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation’s Appalachian Mountains and people, ...

Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford, has introduced a bill that would make it illegal for electric public utilities in North Carolina to purchase, or use, coal derived from dynamiting mountaintops in ...

Boone County, W.V. resident Maria Gunnoe is one of the six recipients of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize, which awards grassroots activists $150,000 to “pursue their vision of a renewed and ...

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency and environmentalists Tuesday by upholding the agency’s decision on the harm caused by a coal mining operation ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – Bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp. agreed Thursday to become the first U.S. coal operator to phase out and eventually stop all large-scale mountaintop removal mining in central ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A federal appeals court overturned a ruling Friday requiring more extensive environmental reviews of mountaintop removal, a form of coal mining in Appalachia that blasts away ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp. agreed Thursday to become the first U.S. coal operator to phase out and eventually stop all large-scale mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it was revoking a crucial water permit for West Virginia's largest mountaintop removal mine because it would irreparably ...

Voters in the heart of coal country oppose mountaintop removal coal mining, according to a poll released by Earthjustice, Appalachian Mountain Advocates and the Sierra Club. The poll sampled 1,315 ...