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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Blast Rites In coal country, mining is destroying cemeteries and faith	Jessica Tzerman	03 Aug 2006	Main Dish
James Bowe, a lifelong resident of Whitesville, W.Va., knows the mountains around his home better than he knows himself. He's seen friends and family buried there, and has devoted countless hours to protecting his loved ones' resting places and the Indian burial grounds that stand alongside them. So when Bowe pulled up on his four-wheeler in early April and spotted a coal company drilling in the ...
Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, Ohio, West Virginia (all these topics)

Moving Mountains Mountaintop-removal mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back	Erik Reece	16 Feb 2006	Main Dish
This article was originally published in Orion Magazine. Not since the glaciers pushed toward these ridgelines a million years ago have the Appalachian Mountains been as threatened as they are today. But the coal-extraction process decimating this landscape, known as mountaintop removal, has generated little press beyond the region. A mountaintop no more. Photo: Viv ...
Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, environmental justice, health, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment, Virginia, West Virginia (all these topics)

A Short Review of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson's books offer environmental ethics with a light touch	Sarah van Schagen	04 Mar 2005	Arts and Minds
Somewhere along the 2,200-mile trail from Georgia to Maine, through the Appalachian and Smoky Mountain chains, I fell in love with Bill Bryson. A walk in the woods. A Walk in the Woods, the venerable travel writer's best-selling 1998 account of hiking a portion of the Appalachian Trail, conjured memories of adventures I'd had as a kid in the forests where I grew ...
Topics: Appalachia, Australia, United States (all these topics)

Coal Comfort		30 May 2003	Daily Grist
Coal Comfort A four-and-a-half-year study by the federal government has confirmed what most residents of Appalachia figured was obvious: Mountaintop removal coal mining is destroying the region's forests and streams. Yet despite the findings, which were released yesterday, the Bush administration does not intend to impose concrete limits on the practice. In ...
Topics: Appalachia, deforestation, energy, mining and drilling, renewable energy, Southeast, wilderness (all these topics)

Blowing His Top		14 May 2002	Daily Grist
Blowing His Top The Bush administration appealed a federal court decision yesterday that would limit mountaintop-removal mining and asked the judge to clarify that the ruling "should be read as not applying nationwide or to activities other than coal mining." On May 8, U.S. District Judge Charles H. Haden II of West Virginia ruled that coal mining valley fills, ...
Topics: Appalachia, energy, mining and drilling, politics, renewable energy, West Virginia (all these topics)

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