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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order during a ceremony with Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental ...

As you may be aware by now, a major victory has been declared in the fight to stop Alabama-based Twin Pines Minerals from strip mining land adjacent to our Okefenokee National Wildlife Reserve in ...

Data centers are the same kind of extraction, only this time the corporations are hiding them behind fences, nondisclosure agreements and a lot of glossy PR about “upcycling” coal mines and powering ...

Deed Must Specify Right to Strip Mining, Panel Rules Because strip mining was not widely used when a deed granting coal rights was issued, the man now holding those rights cannot use the practice to ...

Last June, the people of Georgia celebrated a huge victory when Twin Pines Minerals abandoned its proposed titanium strip mine along the Okefenokee Swamp’s southeastern border and instead sold its ...

Residents in Jackson Township, Cambria County, are preparing to weigh in on a proposed surface mining project that has drawn skepticism and opposition ahead of a zoning hearing Wednesday night. The ...

West Virginia is now on the frontline of a national shift that most people won’t notice until it shows up in their own bills, water tables or the substation down the road. This goes far beyond the ...