New SkyTruth Research Reveals Tarnished Legacy of Mountaintop Mining—and the Policy Implications
New SkyTruth Research Reveals Tarnished Legacy of Mountaintop Mining—and the Policy Implications
Explosives and heavy equipment: the perfect combination for mine owners to extract coal from a pristine Appalachian landscape. Too bad this process, known as mountaintop removal mining (MTM), is terrible if you live near the mined mountain, or in a watershed downstream, or on a planet faced with the imminent threat of ever-increasing temperatures brought about by greenhouse-gas emissions.