EOLIA, KY. — 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 ...

With strip mining, trees are the first to go. Then, hundreds of feet of rock may be blasted away from the tops or sides of mountains to get at underground seams of coal.

State & federal mining regulators say the role of strip mining in the Eastern Kentucky floods should be investigated. Climate change will intensify heavy rains.

We have strip mining behind us,” said Peake, who is also a KFTC volunteer. “We’ve had some floods before, but we never had anything like what came through July 28. ...

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It is extraordinarily alarming that the Environmental Protection Division would even consider a permit to conduct strip mining near or at this natural treasure. This draft permit also considers ...

Please protect the beloved Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge by denying permits to any strip mining operation in or around the swamp. Trail Ridge holds the water in the swamp and therefore ...

The mining pit is in Butler Township, near Girardville. Chief Zangari said his father was a worker at the mine when it flooded more than 50 years ago. It's been flooded ever since.

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