Federal studies have long shown coal ash to contain significant quantities of heavy metals like arsenic, lead and selenium, which can cause cancer and ...
Full Cost of Coal $500 Billion/Year in U.S., Harvard Study Finds. February 17th, 2011 by Tim Tyler . Well, it doesn’t seem like Harvard Medical School will be ...
The images are still fresh: candlelit faces in the West Virginia night, family snapshots of coal miners trapped below, hopes of a rescue raised and cruelly dashed ...
Overview . Mountaintop removal mining (MTR), also known as mountaintop mining (MTM), is a form of surface mining that involves the topographical alteration and/or ...
An introduction: Appalachia, a rugged swath of America hugging the mountains from Georgia to New York, has for generations been the symbol of aching poverty in a land ...
Report Mountaintop Mining Legacy: Destroying Appalachian Streams The environmental damage caused by mountaintop removal mining across Appalachia has been well …
If the people here weren’t 98.5 percent white, we’d call it a reservation. Driving through these hills and hollows, you aren’t in the Appalachia of Elmore ...
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The region of the United States known as Appalachia basically follows the Appalachian Mountains. The Appalachians run from Labrador south to Alabama, about 2,100 ...
Kentucky political leaders largely resort to finger-pointing and rhetoric. The coal miners, however, are left with few options but to adapt. http://wfpl.org/wp ...
Coal supplies over 40 percent of global electricity needs, and that percentage is going up. The only real question is how to minimize the damage.
Ashley Potter, at left, an Exercise Physiologist with the H.E.A.R.T. Champions program at St. Mary's Medical Center in Huntington, W.Va., uses a tape to measure ...
I was raised in the back country of MO. As a child we kept a coal oil when we got a cut, bee sting or what have you there was a corn cob in it so we dabbed it with ...
RELATED LINKS; A Short History of Kentucky/Central Appalachia An overview of this region's past that provides some history and context for understanding its largely ...
-- West Virginia billionaire Jim Justice made his fortune in coal and agriculture, and he is revered in his home state as the man who rescued the historic ...
Sitting in a rusty, sky blue GMC pickup on the side of Main Street, Gavin* rested his arm through the rolled down window and took a long drag on his Phillies ...
Makayla Urias, 8, from Pike County, Kentucky holds contaminated water samples taken from her home which is surrounded by mountaintop removal coal mining.
During the last two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has destroyed or severely damaged more than a million acres of forest and buried nearly 2,000 ...
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