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    Mountaintop removal mining (MTR), also known as mountaintop mining (MTM), is a form of surface mining at the summit or summit ridge of a mountain. Coal...
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    Surface mining, including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying...
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    change. Some mining methods (lithium mining, phosphate mining, coal mining, mountaintop removal mining, and sand mining) may have such significant environmental...
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  • such as offshore drilling, oil spills, hydraulic fracturing, mountaintop removal mining,illegal fishing and habitat change detection. SkyTruth releases...
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    Rainforest Action Network due to its funding of companies engaged in mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. The protests included political demonstrations...
    47 KB (4,106 words) - 03:53, 27 May 2024
  • Mountaintop Removal is a 2007 documentary film directed by Michael O'Connell. The film explores how mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia has affected...
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    also referred to as open-cast, open-pit, mountaintop removal or strip, mining methods. Opencast coal mining recovers a greater proportion of the coal...
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  • safety and health history. Mining has a number of environmental impacts. In the United States, issues like mountaintop removal, and acid mine drainage have...
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    mining techniques in the Appalachia include contour, area, high-wall, auger, and mountaintop removal mining (MTR). The damage caused by mountaintop removal...
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  • method known as Mountaintop Removal Mining, which is a form of surface mining that involves the topographical alteration and/or removal of a summit, summit...
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  • Mountaintop removal mining All pages with titles containing mountaintop This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mountaintop...
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    obstructing police and impeding traffic, during a protest against mountaintop removal mining in Raleigh County, West Virginia. The protesters intended to enter...
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  • Arch Resources (category Mountaintop removal mining)
    Coal practices mountaintop removal mining, which is controversial because it reduces the height of mountaintops. Their West Virginia mining operations in...
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  • Maria Gunnoe (category Mountaintop removal mining)
    Maria Gunnoe (born 1968) is a native West Virginian who opposes mountaintop removal mining, and is a winner of the Goldman Prize and Wallenberg Medal. Maria...
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    Julia Bonds (category Mountaintop removal mining)
    Prize in 2003, for leading the fight against the mining practice called mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachian mountain range. In an interview...
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  • The Last Mountain (category Works about the history of mining)
    of mining and burning coal, with a particular focus on the use of a method for coal strip-mining in Appalachia commonly known as mountaintop removal mining...
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  • movement established in 2005 to raise worldwide awareness of mountaintop removal mining and its effects on the environment and peoples of Appalachia....
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  • Black Castle Mining Company)
    mining industry regulation by Massey Energy. In June 2009, a Raleigh County judge granted a preliminary injunction to block anti-mountaintop removal activists...
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    Environmental issues in Appalachia (category Coal mining in Appalachia)
    coal production. Mountaintop mining, also called mountaintop removal (MTR), is a form of strip mining and surface mining. This mining process uses explosives...
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    campaign in 2001, bringing dozens of lawsuits targeting mining practices, which include mountaintop removal, slurry pond construction, and targeting mercury...
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