JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CS) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers trampled environmental law by allowing the strip-mining of 7,687 acres of wetlands and streams, a process that leads to the "utter ...

Two former state and federal mining regulators say state and federal authorities should investigate the role strip mining played in last month's devastating and deadly flooding in Eastern Kentucky and ...

Strip mining has forever altered the Appalachian landscape by cutting off mountaintops to get at low sulfur deposits more cheaply and safely than underground mining allows. Now, after 20 years of ...

When strip mining for coal ended more than 30 years ago in southeast Kansas, thousands of acres of scarred land were abandoned. For decades, steam and electric shovels cleared away the topsoil to get ...

Two former mining regulators want an investigation into just how badly strip mining impacted the recent, deadly Eastern Kentucky floods. “If you get an area that has been strip mined, and the soil has ...

At issue | Jan. 23 Herald-Leader editorial, "Strip-mining would destroy historic towns; state should protect water, landscape near Lynch, Benham" The month of January is a most appropriate time to ...

LAFOLLETTE, Tennessee—Even as the nation’s demand for coal tumbles, the Trump administration is considering a permit that would allow strip mining on protected ridgelines in Tennessee’s Cumberland ...

In his book “Wilderness and the American Mind” Roderick Nash asserts that “wilderness was the basic ingredient of American civilization.” As we witness the Trump administration’s relentless attacks on ...