An Economist Explores the Unintended Consequences of Man's Quest for Short-Term Gains from 1493 to Today

ICTMN Staff
June 20, 2012
In a column today on globalresearch.ca, Biodiversity and the Environment: Silent Spring For Us? , Dr...

Mountaintop Mining Documentary on CNN August 14

ICTMN Staff
August 14, 2011
The battle over mountaintop mining for coal has mostly been fought in the U.S...

Researchers to Study Mountaintop Mining’s Effect on Watersheds

ICTMN Staff
January 24, 2011
Researchers at West Virginia University (WVU) have received more than $600,000 to study watersheds in southern coalfields and truly gauge the effect on these ecosystems of mountain...

Pro-coal Ralliers Protest Revoked EPA Permit

ICTMN Staff
January 22, 2011
Miners, industry leaders and political officials converged on West Virginia’s capitol this week to protest the U.S...

Crusader Against Mountaintop Mining Memorialized

ICTMN Staff
January 18, 2011
Anti-mountaintop-mining activist Judy Bonds did not quite live to see the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revoke a mountaintop-mining permit in her native West Virginia...

EPA Nixes Mountaintop Mining Project

ICTMN Staff
January 15, 2011
In a potentially precedent-setting reversal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Jan. 13 revoked permits for West Virginia’s 2,200-acre Spruce No...

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