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EPA to Delay Mountaintop Coal Mining Exploration Permit in Appalachia
President Barack Obama’s administration put the brakes on 79 applications for surface coal mining permits in four states Wednesday, saying they would violate the Clean Water Act.
The action is the administration’s latest attempt to curb environmental damage from a highly efficient but damaging mining practice known as mountaintop removal. Each permit likely would cause significant [...]
Coal Mine Exploration and Dumping of Mine Regulation at Mountaintop
Environmental safety is the rightful citizens, so that people can live comfortably by tercemar does not damage the environment. To ensure that the environment remains comfortable, they should be made a rule or regulation so that every community or company that will make the industrial development or to perform the exploration of natural wealth must [...]
Impact EPA Mining Permit Review : Coal Mining Companies Worried About Mine Permit Reviews
The Obama administration’s decision to hold coal mining permits to a high environmental standard has struck a note of economic fear in Appalachia, where mining — including the kind of mining that blows up mountaintops — has been a shield against hard times afflicting the rest of the nation.
Amstrong Coal Company Hopes To Open Two New Coal Mining Project and Up To 200 Mining Jobs
While many employers are cutting workers, the coal industry is adding to its payroll. The Armstrong Coal Company says it hopes to open two new mines. An underground mine in Muhlenberg County and a surface mine in Ohio County.
Fortune Mining Company Sign Agreement With TCC Coal Mine Project
Fortune Minerals Limited and the Tahltan Central Council (”TCC”) on behalf of the Tahltan Nation have entered into an agreement that commits the parties to the principles of cooperation and mutual respect.
Inspector Shortage Hampers West Virginia Coal Mine Safety Effort (Update)
An inability to retain inspectors is hurting West Virginia’s efforts to make the inherently dangerous business of coal mining safer.
Faced with a turnover rate topping 20 percent, the state is scrambling — for the second consecutive year — to perform five mandatory annual inspections at each of the state’s 230 coal mines.
West Virginia Struggle to Maintain Coal Mine Exploration
An inability to retain inspectors is hurting West Virginia’s efforts to make the inherently dangerous business of coal mining safer.
Faced with a turnover rate topping 20 percent, the state is scrambling — for the second consecutive year — to perform five mandatory annual inspections at each of the state’s 230 coal mines.
Mine Exploration Regulation, US Coal Mine Exploration and Industry Wary Candidate President Plan
Ohio’s powerful coal industry has warm feelings for Appalachia native Gov. Ted Strickland, the man who’s trying to teach presidential hopeful Barack Obama how to win votes in rural areas in this crucial swing state.
Despite the similarities in the two Democrats’ views of energy policy, the industry hasn’t showered the U.S. senator from Illinois with [...]
Coal Mining Exploration Could Help Lift Sluggish Economy
It drives the economy in Eastern Kentucky and could be growing even more.
Coal Mining provides thousands of jobs here in the mountains and one group says there’s potential for even more. Even the though the economy across the nation is sluggish right now, some say coal might be lifting up the economy here at home.
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