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Coal surface mining has heavily altered the hydrological cycle and landscape of the Appalachia causing environmental degradation and contributing to ecosystem damages beyond repair. [11] Surface coal mining in the Appalachian has contributed to the destruction of over 500 mountain tops. [24]
Early attempts to regulate strip-mining on the state level were largely unsuccessful due to lax enforcement. The Appalachian Group to Save the Land and the People was founded in 1965 to stop surface mining. In 1968, Congress held the first hearings on strip mining. Ken Hechler introduced the first strip-mining abolition bill in Congress in 1971 ...
"Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia". United States EPA. 18 June 2022. Mountaintop Mining: Background on Current Controversies (PDF). Congressional Research Service. "Mountaintop removal mining is a crime against Appalachia". Al Jazeera America. April 7, 2015. "Toxic West Virginia". Vice. 2010. Archived from the original on 2014-10-24
Straddling the border of Boone County and Lincoln County in the Appalachian Mountains, the Hobet 21 mine was one of the largest mountaintop-removal coal mining operations in West Virginia. Originally owned by Fil Nutter, the mine used both underground mining and strip mining techniques, and later even more intensive surface mining using a ...
Coal mining in Appalachia — a geographic−cultural region of the Eastern United States. Subcategories This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
Many were left to wonder why this creek, of all the Appalachian rivulets, got arguably the worst of the torrent. The trouble with Troublesome Creek: How one KY stream became the center of a flood ...
The last update was posted on November 15, 2012, to announce that Patriot Coal, one of Appalachia's biggest coal companies, was getting out of the mountaintop removal business. Their agreement to quit the practice of large-scale surface mining in Appalachia is an acknowledgement of the risks that surface mining possess, such as increased risk ...
Nov. 7—Filmmaker Uesula Ellis wasn't born or raised in West Virginia. The daughter of two southern West Virginia natives, instead, was born in Germany, where her parents were stationed with the ...