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 ...

Lewis Ritchie pulls a kayak through floodwater after delivering groceries to his father-in-law on July 28, 2022 outside Jackson in Breathitt County. (Photo by Michael Swensen/Getty Images) Over a week ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled, in Kentuckians for the Commonwealth v. Army Corps of Engineers, that the scope of review by the Army Corps of Engineers of § 404 permit applications for ...

As a concerned citizen, I would like to bring to your attention the dangers of mountaintop removal mining and the urgent steps we need to take to protect our nation’s Appalachian Mountains and people, ...

Voters in the heart of coal country oppose mountaintop removal coal mining, according to a poll released by Earthjustice, Appalachian Mountain Advocates and the Sierra Club. The poll sampled 1,315 ...

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.

Note from Dan: While I'm on vacation I'm treating you to some previously published columns. This one ran Feb. 17, 2011. Mountaintop removal mining continues. The coal industry has been harshly ...

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 ...