Mountaintop coal mining (MTM ... often released into the environment through mining activities. Transboundary Pollution: Pollution that originates in one country but can cause damage in another ...

The coal mines of the Tennessee Coal ... long-term exposure to poor air caused chronic lung diseases such as black lung. For convict laborers, conditions were even worse. Poor food rations ...

Last year, coal exports brought the country $5 billion in revenue ... Before Kemmerer, Green worked at Black Butte, another mine in southern Wyoming. He’d been making more money than he ever ...

Nearly 1,400 names in bronze letters cover the black plaques ... “I just had my heart set on never mining coal,” he told High Country News. Grimmett received college scholarships but ...

This year has been even more difficult: In May, the Bureau of Land Management ended federal leasing for coal mining in the Powder ... teams in counties across the country, including three in ...

four Australian companies — Cabin Ridge Project Ltd., Atrum Coal Ltd., Black Eagle Mining Corp. and Evolve (Montem Resources) — decided to sue the Alberta government seeking $13.8 billion in ...