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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...