Recent examinations of the health and environmental impacts of mountaintop mining – stripping the tops off of mountains to extract coal – has the practice looking pretty guilty. It apparently spikes ...

A few weeks ago, while families in Utah grieved for loved ones lost in an unsafe coal mine, the Bush administration responded by handing the coal industry a much-anticipated present. His Office of ...

Rep. Pricey Harrison, D-Guilford, has introduced a bill that would make it illegal for electric public utilities in North Carolina to purchase, or use, coal derived from dynamiting mountaintops in ...

President Obama spaketh, and it was good: “We have to find more environmentally sound ways of mining coal than simply blowing the tops off mountains,” he proclaimed. And, yea, in the mountains and ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp. agreed Thursday to become the first U.S. coal operator to phase out and eventually stop all large-scale mountaintop removal mining in central Appalachia ...

Boone County, W.V. resident Maria Gunnoe is one of the six recipients of this year’s Goldman Environmental Prize, which awards grassroots activists $150,000 to “pursue their vision of a renewed and ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – Bankrupt Patriot Coal Corp. agreed Thursday to become the first U.S. coal operator to phase out and eventually stop all large-scale mountaintop removal mining in central ...

Editor, Times-Dispatch: A recent Commentary column, "Obama's EPA Delivers a Lump of Coal to Appalachia," by William Yeatman condemned the Environmental Protection Agency for its heavy-handed approach ...