Strip mining has forever altered the Appalachian landscape by cutting off mountaintops to get at low sulfur deposits more cheaply and safely than underground mining allows. Now, after 20 years of ...

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Until three years ago, Sam Gilbert’s neighborhood in this secluded mountain nook consisted of vegetation, salamanders in the creek and lush mountain peaks. Then a noisy strip mining operation hunkered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two former state and federal mining regulators say state and federal authorities should investigate the role strip mining played ...

Armed with bucketfuls of trees, volunteers scampered along a Leslie County mountaintop that looked more like the moon than a mountain. Rocks the size of fists went tumbling as shovels struck earth to ...

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LAFOLLETTE, Tennessee—Even as the nation’s demand for coal tumbles, the Trump administration is considering a permit that would allow strip mining on protected ridgelines in Tennessee’s Cumberland ...

RALEIGH COUNTY, W.Va. — Environmentalists have turned a hobbyist drone into a weapon in their long, bitter battle against mountaintop-removal mining. RALEIGH COUNTY, W.Va. — Environmentalists have ...

LAUREL RUN – Almost half a century ago an entire section of the borough was abandoned, and Mary Yuknavich remembers it well. Taking a drive along Northampton Street up Giants Despair on Friday, ...