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West Virginia environmental regulators have renewed a permit on which a mine cleanup violation has gone unabated in Boone County for nearly a year and a half, drawing the ire

West Virginia environmental health advocates are urging state regulators to reject a prominent area coal company’s application to renew a surface mine permit on which a violation of state reclamation

West Virginia environmental health advocates are urging state regulators to reject a prominent area coal company’s application to renew a surface mine permit on which a violation of state reclamation

West Virginia regulators are threatening to take two Boone County mining permits spanning nearly 1,400 acres away from a prominent coal company in response to a lengthening string of alleged

West Virginia regulators are threatening to take two Boone County mining permits spanning nearly 1,400 acres away from a prominent coal company in response to a lengthening string of alleged

In a major development, the government plans to use indigenous Thar coal, instead of imported coal, for generation of 3,960MW. The three power plants that would be shifted to indigenous coal are Sahiwal Coal Power , China Hub Coal Power and Port...

THIS free exhibition at London’s Alison Jacques Gallery is a much-needed and timely reminder of the quality and urgent relevance of the work of Edinburgh-born Carol Rhodes, who studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the turbulent late-1970s. It dovetails with the heightened awareness of, and campaigning about, the environmental threats posed by overexploitation of natural resources. Rhodes did not reside, as many would, in an ivory tower. She found her place in social activism, radical femin...

In  Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards v. Red River Coal Co., ___ F.3d ___, No. 19-2194, 2021 WL 1182464 (4th Cir. 2021), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit held that Red River Coal Companys (Red River) compliance with its Clean Water Act permit shielded Red River from liability under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Several citizens groups brought suit against Red River for discharges of pollutants from the inactive North Fox Gap Surface Mine in Virginia. Those d...

See how important coal mining is in any given state but we take a look here at west virginia. on the map, google earth right behind me. look. if you ever looked at a satellite image of the states, youre often seeing little gray areas like this. often, very often, especially in west virginia, what youre seeing there are surface coal mines. now, the majority of mining in america, coal mining in america, by far the majority, is surface mining. its not people doing this underground missions. you see...

A lot to people in east germany he found the words to describe what his fans felt. cool the. one ball. and this was another fasten them on the excavator operator he often went to his shifts at a surface mine on just a few hours sleep having performed the night before a committed communist he also knew that much needed improving in east germany for the country to fulfil even a fraction of what karl marx had or called for in his writings and now. often brought him into conflict with the party lead...