The industry has long maintained that eliminating mountaintop mining will lead to increased imports from countries that have far fewer environmental safeguards. The practice has a huge economic impact ...

Ashley Judd is calling for an end to the mining practice known as mountaintop removal. The Kentucky native was among some 500 people who gathered outside the Kentucky state Capitol on Tuesday for a ...

Blasting off mountaintops to reach coal in Appalachia, or churning out millions of tons of carbon dioxide to extract oil from sand in Alberta are among environmentalists’ biggest industrial irritants.

Decision seen as giving companies free reign over mountaintop removal, dumping. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Angry environmentalists launched an online campaign Wednesday urging President-elect Barack Obama to ...