Mountaintop Removal Mining Environment

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Top: Science: Environment: Mining: Mountaintop_Removal:

• - Information about mountain top mining and valley fill, and the environmental damage this practice is causing around the state and in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina.
  
• - Archive of Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette articles on mountaintop removal, accompanied by text of US court rulings and a draft version of the never-published environmental impact statement on the practice.
  
• - About the environmental effects of this newly accepted technique in surface mining, which arose due to technological advances in heavy machinery.
  
• - Information about an Environmental Impact Statement on mountaintop mining being prepared by the US federal government and the state of West Virginia.
  
• - NY Times article outlines the issues surrounding this mining practice in the central Appalachians.