How about if the waste from doing it is dumped straight into mountain streams? Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are literally blasted off to access ...

Obama Ends 150-Year War of Strip-Mining in 24 States: Mountaintop Removal Loses Its Groove. Yeah, I’ve been wanting to wake up to that headline for years, too. Instead, I read another Coal ...

This is one of the largest mountaintop removal mine sites in Appalachia ... Yet this type of coal mining makes a significant impact, leaving behind relatively flat but barren, unstable land ...

The legacy of coal is not beautiful nor clean. Coal destroys lives. It's time to move on from an industry that exploits ...

Anyone who has lived near a strip or mountaintop removal mine knows there is no such thing as clean coal. Anyone who has lived near a tipple for the sorting, washing and loading of coal on trains ...