Showing posts with label IV III Mountain Top Removal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IV III Mountain Top Removal. Show all posts

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Anti MTR activists charged The Lincoln Journal

Anti MTR activists charged

The Lincoln Journal - ‎8 hours ago‎
HAMLIN - A number of activists, opposed to mountaintop removal mining, were arrested on misdemeanor charges in Lincoln County, Saturday, July 28, 2012.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

US judge strikes down EPA water rules for MTR NBCNews.com

US judge strikes down EPA water rules for mines

NBCNews.com -
The Environmental Protection Agency overstepped its powers by setting up water-quality criteria for coal mining operations in Appalachia, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Friday, July 27, 2012

Study finds damage far downstream of mine sites Charleston Gazette

Study finds damage far downstream of mine sites

Charleston Gazette -
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Mountaintop removal is harming water quality far downstream from where active mining buries creeks beneath valley fill waste dumps, according to a new scientific paper that adds to the growing concerns about strip-mining damage.

Activists plan to protest mountaintop-removal mining in southern W.Va. The Republic

Activists plan to protest mountaintop-removal mining in southern W.Va.

The Republic -
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Anti-coal activists plan to hold a protest effort to shut down a southern West Virginia strip mine. The Radical Action for Mountain Peoples' Survival and other groups say they plan to conduct a mass gathering at an unspecified ...

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Suit claims ex-W.Va. strip mine polluting streams Daily Mail - Charleston


Suit claims ex-W.Va. strip mine polluting streams

Daily Mail - Charleston - 
by AP AP HUNTINGTON -- The owner of a reclaimed mountaintop removal

Sunday, April 1, 2012

U! STOP IT! Fed Court Okays Worst Mountaintop Removal Project in History Fly Rod


Fed Court Okays Worst Mountaintop Removal Project in History

Fly Rod & Reel Magazine (blog) - 
Late last week, siding with the coal industry, a federal court overturned the US Environmental Protection Agency's veto of one of the worst mountaintop removal mines permits ever issued in US history, the Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, 

Friday, March 30, 2012