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 ...

The Obama administration is imposing new measures designed to better protect streams from mountaintop removal coal mining, similar to this one on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia, a move the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Bankrupt Patriot Coal will become the first U.S. operator to stop large-scale mountaintop removal mining in Central Appalachia under a historic agreement with three ...