Mountaintop Mining

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency went too far when it began reviewing individual Clean Water Act permits on mountaintop m...

A guilty verdict should be rendered against the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) for misleading hyperbole associated with its defense of destructive mountaintop-removal mining.

Proponents of mountaintop removal hung a banner in eastern Kentucky, mocking Ashley Judd for her efforts to raise awareness of the environmental, economic and cultural damage being wrought by the world's worst coal mining.

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger President Barack Obama announced this week that his administration would open areas from Delaware to Florid...

A series of satellite views of a Boone County, West Virginia coal mine in the Appalachian Mountains, taken from 1984 to 2009, offer scientists much-ne...

On May 19th at 8pm a star-studded line-up will take the stage at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium for the Music Saves Mountains concert, presented by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Scientific evidence that mountaintop-removal coal mining destroys streams and threatens human health is so strong that government should stop granting...

Perhaps Blankenship's extreme wealth is why Forbes magazine decided to interview him. But what shines through more than anything is Blankenship's extreme anti-environmental worldview.

This week, more than 150 activists from around the country walked the halls of Congress, urging their elected leaders to end mountaintop removal coal mining.