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The coal industry is responding with diplomacy to Sen. Robert C. Byrd's attack on mountaintop-removal mining. The National Mining Association said Friday it agrees with most of the West Virginia Democrat's comments, including statements... Published: Saturday, December 05, 2009 Words: 360
more momentum this year than in the past decade against the destructive, uniquely Appalachian form of strip mining known as mountaintopremoval, though they have yet to mobilize the millions of supporters they want. The activists have... Published: Monday, December 07, 2009 Words: 943
Environmental groups and coalfield residents are pushing the Obama administration this week to take action to block new mountaintopremoval mining permits in Appalachia. Leaders of several citizens groups met with administration officials... Published: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 Words: 622
Corps of Engineers officials on Wednesday escalated a fight with the Environmental Protection Agency over the regulation of mountaintop-removal coal mining. At the same time, coalfield politicians rushed to insist that new policies... Published: Thursday, March 26, 2009 Words: 866
probably now aware that President Obama's head of the EPA announced a decision on Tuesday to delay and review permits for two mountaintop-removal mining operations, an action that calls into question more than 100 additional pending... Published: Sunday, March 29, 2009 Words: 1084
I applaud the steps that have been taken over the past month to more closely scrutinize mountaintop-removal coal extraction. While the Friends of Coal and many politicians are going to go on record screaming bloody murder for the coal... Published: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Words: 529
There's nothing wishy-washy about the point of view of "Something's Rising," a new book about mountaintop-removal coal mining written by two Eastern Kentuckians, novelist Silas House and journalist Jason Howard. "After carefully examining... Published: Sunday, April 26, 2009 Words: 450
of Environmental Protection biologist has warned that DEP Secretary Randy Huffman misled Congress about the damage being done by mountaintop-removal coal mining, an internal agency memo shows. Doug Wood, a stream assessment biologist... Published: Saturday, August 22, 2009 Words: 724
turned out in force Tuesday evening to loudly oppose part of the Obama administration's plan to more strictly regulate mountaintopremoval coal mining. Miners, industry officials and other coal supporters demanded the U.S. Army Corps... Published: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 Words: 993
President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson has given her staff some welcome direction on mountaintopremoval: Follow the law. Specifically, the EPA will scrutinize mountaintopremoval permits more carefully.... Published: Thursday, March 26, 2009 Words: 506
