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Oct 30, 2018· A cemetery surrounded by a coal mine in West ia. ... A mountaintop mining site booms a little ways up the ridge. ... An Introduction to America''s Most Metal Cemetery. 6:04.

American Rivers has listed several rivers threatened by mountaintop mining in our annual America''s Most Endangered Rivers ® report, including the Coal River in 1999 and 2000, the Big Sandy River in 2001, and Russell Fork in 2016. Health Impacts: one nurse''s story. Pamela Johnson is a registered nurse in West ia.

Jul 20, 2012· Study finds toxins from mountaintop coal mining sites ... Kentucky''s 5th Congressional District, where much mountaintopremoval mining takes place, ranks at the bottom of America''s 436 districts in terms of physical health. West ia''s 3 rd District comes in at No. 435.

Mar 21, 2016· Central Appalachia''s history is the story of coal. At its peak in the mid20 th century, mining employed more than 150,000 people in West ia alone, mostly in the state''s otherwise poor ...

Dec 04, 2008· Bank of America''s decision to phase out financing of companies that practice mountain top removal is a giant leap forward in the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining, which has devastated Appalachian communities and the mountains and streams they depend on.

Sep 30, 2015· The Epic Rise and Fall of America''s Most Notorious Coal Baron ... Blankenship''s onetime mountaintop estate overlooking West ia''s Mingo County, where he grew up. ... opened the West ...

Two opposing sides of America''s energy future are at war in the coalfields of southern West ia. Massey Energy, a coal company, wants to mine Coal River Mountain using a surface mining technique called mountaintop removal, but local residents and environmentalists through acts of civil disobedience are trying to save

Archaeology, coal, and activism collide in the Appalachian Mountains at the site of America''s largest labor conflict. The coal mine at lower right is a mountaintop removal site, where the peak has been sheared off to expose coal seams beneath.

Sep 04, 2017· Analysing Trump''s "amazing results" in the US coal mining industry Share President Donald Trump has highlighted "big stories" in the mining sector – including mining job creation and the opening of mines – that, he argues, demonstrate his success at quickly improving conditions for mining .

Apr 26, 2018· In West ia, coal mining''s dominance has come as a blessing and a curse. Learn about coal mining industry''s dark past and how it shapedliterally and figurativelythe Mountain State.

America''s Castles Coal Barons, AE Home Video (2006) The 19th century saw a dramatic increase in the mining of coal. By the time the Civil War began, millions of tons of coal were being produced annually in the United States. Citizens of other countries were also profiting from this industry.

Apr 28, 2015· Appalachian Voices is an awardwinning nonprofit organization that is cultivating a citizen movement across ia, West ia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky to shift our region from harmful, polluting energy practices — like mountaintop removal coal mining and fracking — to cleaner, more just and sustainable energy sources.

Aug 29, 2008· Coal, primarily from underground mines east of the Mississippi was the nation''s primary fuel source until the early 1950s. Surface (strip) and mountaintop removal mining overtook underground mines in the 1970s. In 2000, the majority of coal was produced west of the Mississippi.

Jun 02, 2014· And here''s another reality check. As members of Appalachia''s mining communities have noted for years, Kentucky and West ia had lost nearly twothirds of their coal mining jobs long before Obama entered the White House, thanks to heavily mechanized operations and a shift to largescale strip mining or mountaintop removal mining.

Feb 17, 2006· Mountaintopremoval mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back ... This much at least can be said for the West ia coal industry: it has perfected the art of ...

Oct 13, 2009· Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining, a video report produced by Yale Environment 360 in collaboration with MediaStorm, focuses on the environmental and social impacts of this practice and examines the longterm effects on the region''s forests and waterways.

As the US row over mountaintop mining rages on, Cathy Kunkel urges politicians in West ia to embrace a more sustainable future. The vast coal resources of West ia, in the eastern United States, have played an important part in the state''s history. Lying in the heart of the central ...

Sep 03, 2018· Steele is a board member and cofounder of the West ia Mine Wars Museum, a humble collection of artifacts and displays in Matewan, West ia. The museum is one of the only surviving testaments to the struggles of the state''s coal miners in the early 20 th century – a labor story that Wilma believes more people ought to know.

Dec 12, 2013· Despite what political supporters of the coal industry would have us believe, a candidate opposed to mountaintop removal coal mining can, and likely will, represent Kentucky or West ia in ...

The government approved Consol Energy Inc.''s plan to fill valleys and streams with debris from a mountaintopremoval coal mine in West ia.

May 03, 2017· Deep layers of underground coal are all but gone in West ia after 200 years of relentless mining, leaving thinner seams of coal on top of the state''s beautiful mountains. But surface mining ...

Jan 03, 2017· America''s PostCoal Country Is Struggling To Come Back (HBO) ... Josh Hersh went to a coal town in West ia where the way forward doesn''t lead back to the mines. ... How mountaintop mining ...

Sep 24, 2008· Blair Mountain, West ia is the site of a 1921 battle in the West ia Mine Wars,, the historic push of unionized coal miners from the north to organize the workers of the southern ...

Jun 07, 2012· Big Coal''s Sleazy War A QA with Maria Gunnoe, the mountaintop removal activist who''s been slimed as a child pornographer
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