Sentences with phrase «removal valley fill»

In March 2007, OVEC and partner groups won a federal lawsuit against the Army Corps of Engineers that repealed mountaintop removal valley fill permits in southern West Virginia granted without adequate environmental consideration, and banned issuance of new permits.

Last April, in response to resounding opposition to mountaintop removal, the EPA announced new guidelines for permitting mountaintop removal valley fills.

Not exact matches

I color coded the areas affected by mountaintop removal (blue) and the areas affected by valley fill (yellow) and overlaid the color coded DEM over the hill shades of the mine in 2003 and 2010.

After analyzing all these results, I have found that 7.4 million cubic meters of rock was removed by way of mountain top removal mining and 9.8 million cubic meters of rock has filled what once was a valley.

In the case of mountaintop removal mining, coal companies are exploding entire mountains to reach buried seams of coal and then filling valleys with the rubble, burying hundreds of miles of stream forever.

These sites also don't hold water very well — they were engineered to drain into valley fills, the terraced slopes where rubble from mountaintop removal is dumped.

Coal mining has progressively changed from predominantly underground mining to surface mining [143], including mountaintop removal with valley fill, which is now widespread in the Appalachian ecoregion in the United States.

In the heart of Appalachia, where the coal industry wields enormous power over government and public opinion, lifelong resident Maria Gunnoe fights against environmentally - devastating mountaintop removal mining and valley fill operations.

Researchers at the university of Kentucky recently concluded: «there is a clear risk of increased flooding (greater runoff production and less surface flow detention) following [mountaintop removal and valley fill] operations.»

«Mountaintop removal / valley fill is a mining practice where the tops of mountains are removed, exposing the seams of coal.

At least 724 miles of streams were completely buried by valley fills from Appalachian mountaintop removal between 1985 and 2001.

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].

Gunnoe won the Goldman Prize in 2009 for her fight against environmentally - devastating mountaintop removal coal mining and valley fill operations.

In the heart of Appalachia, where the coal industry wields enormous power over government and public opinion, lifelong resident and 2009 Goldman Prize winner Maria Gunnoe fights against environmentally - devastating mountaintop removal mining and valley fill operations.

Mountaintop removal coal mining means blowing off most of a mountain and pushing the fill into the valleys.