Sentences with phrase «more mountaintop removal coal mining»

EPA Objects to Permits For Three More Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Operations

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For example, PNC no longer lends to coal producers with anything more than a minimal exposure to mountaintop removal mining.

«These significant alterations are likely to lead to saltier and more perennial streamflows throughout Appalachia, where at least 7 percent of the land has already been disturbed by mountaintop - removal mining,» says Nippgen, who notes that mountaintop removal is not part of Wyoming's coal industry.

Most recently, there's been a burst of songs about coal mining via mountaintop removal, where the threat is less to miners and more to the environment of West Virginia and, in the long run, the climate.

This would be better than pouring more subsidies into coal, whose use will be limited by the carbon emissions, and which creates environmental problems in the mining process (e.g., «mountaintop removal).

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which up to 800 feet, sometimes more, of densely forested mountaintops are literally blown up to reach thin coal seams.

It also revealed that more than 500 mountains have been severely impacted or destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining.

Coal companies and their lobbyists are pushing for more than 100 new mountaintop removal mining permits, seeking permission to blow more mountains up and destroy more mountain streams in even more communities.

Google Earth software has created maps that stopped a plan to log more than 1,000 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains; to raise awareness and opposition to mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia; and to discover and preserve a rare fringing coral reef in a remote area of Western Australia.

A study in 2009 showed that nearly 1.2 million acres to date had been surface mined for coal, and more than 500 mountains destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining.

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Listen to a snippet of his speech above.DeChristopher is absolutely right: we're going to need to see more direct action from young, engaged people if we hope to see serious progress in arenas like halting mountaintop removal mining, shuttering dirty old coal plants, and making significant inroads towards climate mitigation in general.

More than 500 mountains have been destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining.