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Massey Energy Subsidiaries Prepare Coal Mine Exploration In Coal River Valley
A subsidiary of Massey Energy has begun mountaintop-removal coal-mining operations on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, the only peak in Coal River Valley that hasn’t been blasted away for mining. Blasting for the mine is taking place 200 yards from the Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment, which holds 8 billion gallons of toxic coal [...]
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.
E.P.A Plans Aggressive Review of Permit Request for Mountaintop Coal Mining
Environmental Protection Agency concern about potential harm to water quality. The agency plans an aggressive review of permit requests for mountaintop coal mining.
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.
Coal Mine, Economic Growth and Environment Future
Every form of energy has its drawbacks. Our neighbors to the west of us in the Kingston, Tenn., area got a brutal reminder of that fact last week.
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.
