strip mining

Earth Day: What are we fighting for?

April 22, 2015 - The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation has launched a "Southern Voices" oral history project to capture the stories of Southern leaders working for social and economic justice. This special Earth Day installment focuses on environmental justice.

Environment

Anti-mining protests heat up in West Virginia as evidence of damage builds

By Sue Sturgis

July 30, 2012 - Twenty people were arrested over the weekend while blocking the largest mountaintop removal operation in West Virginia. Meanwhile, scientific evidence of the human and environmental health damages caused by such mining continues to mount. Will U.S. lawmakers approve legislation imposing a moratorium?

Southern Exposure

Mining the Mountains

By Ken Ward, Jr.

October 1, 1999 - Strip mining and mountaintop removal has communities facing off against King Coal

Earth Day: What are we fighting for?

Anti-mining protests heat up in West Virginia as evidence of damage builds

Mining the Mountains

We are building a better South.