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 ...

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons. On a freezing cold Wednesday afternoon in eastern Kentucky, Taysha ...

Aug. 5 (UPI) --The Department of the Interior announced Tuesday it has approved a mining plan modification for the Rosebud Mine in Montana. The decision for the 25,000-acre strip mine in Rosebud and ...

A group of Canton homeowners is complaining about what it calls a strip mine operation along Route 44, and the dispute has an odd quirk: The property owner involved is a member of the town’s planning ...

Minnesotans unhappy with a final congressional vote on mining interests near the Boundary Waters insist their fight is not over, after the Senate overturned protections for areas along the most ...

Residents in Jackson Township, Cambria County, are preparing to weigh in on a proposed surface mining project that has drawn skepticism and opposition ahead of a zoning hearing Wednesday night. The ...