The industry has long maintained that eliminating mountaintop mining will lead to increased imports from countries that have far fewer environmental safeguards. The practice has a huge economic impact ...

Ashley Judd is calling for an end to the mining practice known as mountaintop removal. The Kentucky native was among some 500 people who gathered outside the Kentucky state Capitol on Tuesday for a ...

Blasting off mountaintops to reach coal in Appalachia, or churning out millions of tons of carbon dioxide to extract oil from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists’ biggest industrial irritants.

Environmentalist group Appalachian Voices released a new interactive map Tuesday to show the expansion of mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia.

Decision seen as giving companies free reign over mountaintop removal, dumping. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Angry environmentalists launched an online campaign Wednesday urging President-elect Barack Obama to ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) -- In Maria Gunnoe's 11-year war over the strip mining she says has ruined her homestead, there have been casualties: Family dogs have been poisoned and shot and her truck's ...