mining
In December, President Donald Trump cut more than 2 million acres from a pair of protected Utah sites.
Don Blankenship is attempting to "shift the blame for a decade of death, destruction and despair," said union president Cecil Roberts.
The vote marked the culmination of a decade of pressure from activists, environmentalists and the Catholic church.
Berkeley Pit is nearly 700 acres of acidic, deadly water.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Mountaintop removal, a form of surface mining, is destroying land and costing jobs in West Virginia.
A measure selling the lands to a foreign mining company was slipped into a defense bill at the last minute.
But who has the power to define what is sacred?
A Navajo teen now has what might be the most kick-ass profile picture on Facebook.
The leak released lead, arsenic, cadmium and other dangerous contaminants into waterways.