Historic Federal Decision Finds West Virginia Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Companies Guilty of Damaging Streams

Streams in West Virginia have been damaged as a result of mountaintop coal mine removal, a federal court found this week. Photo credit: Brian Stansberry via Sierra Club

No federal court in the U.S. had ever ruled that high conductivity discharges from coal mines were harmful to streams…

[source: http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/06/west-virginia-mountaintop-removal-coal/]


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