How about if the waste from doing it is dumped straight into mountain streams? Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are literally blasted off to access ...

Bluestone Coal Corporation’s Poca surface mine’s mining permit was suspended by the West Virginia Department of Environmental ...

This is Appalachia - the heart of America's coal country ... This process is a type of surface mining known as mountaintop removal, and has drawn the ire not only of nearby residents but of ...

Alberta announced a new coal policy on Friday that would ban mountaintop removal mining and open-pit coal mining on the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Alberta's energy and minerals minister,..

Canada's Alberta Government is poised to introduce stringent regulations on coal mining, including a ban on mountaintop removal and significant hikes in coal royalties. This move aims to secure ...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has announced plans to ban new mountaintop removal and open-pit coal developments on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, but the new rules wouldn’t apply ...

"They're too low. We're going to bring them up," he said of the province's current rates. Government officials said Friday that mountaintop removal coal mining has not occurred in Alberta. The new ...