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. (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And, yea, in the mountains and down through all the valleys of the ancient land of Appalachia, hearts were filled with joy, for here was a prophet of hope who was signaling that a change was coming — ...

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 ...

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 ...

Having just finished "Lost Mountain" by Erik Reece for my Literature and Ecology class, I am motivated to share my new knowledge concerning mountaintop removal, what I am newly convinced is one of the ...

VICCO, Ky. -- -- VICCO, Ky. -- Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets his porch and car if a few days go by without rain.