Data centers are the same kind of extraction, only this time the corporations are hiding them behind fences, nondisclosure ...

Two former state and federal mining regulators say state and federal authorities should investigate the role strip mining played in last month's devastating and deadly flooding in Eastern Kentucky and ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CS) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers trampled environmental law by allowing the strip-mining of 7,687 acres of wetlands and streams, a process that leads to the "utter ...

Strip mining has forever altered the Appalachian landscape by cutting off mountaintops to get at low sulfur deposits more cheaply and safely than underground mining allows. Now, after 20 years of ...

When strip mining for coal ended more than 30 years ago in southeast Kansas, thousands of acres of scarred land were abandoned. For decades, steam and electric shovels cleared away the topsoil to get ...

Two former mining regulators want an investigation into just how badly strip mining impacted the recent, deadly Eastern Kentucky floods. “If you get an area that has been strip mined, and the soil has ...

Until three years ago, Sam Gilbert’s neighborhood in this secluded mountain nook consisted of vegetation, salamanders in the creek and lush mountain peaks. Then a noisy strip mining operation hunkered ...

I've always felt that too many businesses see customers as a resource to be exploited. So I'm pleased to find that RightNow Technologies CEO Greg Gianforte has come up with a great new analogy for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's 150 years into the future, and Homo sapiens have managed to eradicate all of Earth's native ...