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 ...

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 local council of governments whose mission is the renewable use of materials is entertaining proposals from a pair of energy firms for leasing land it owns for a solar project and for potentially ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Arch Coal is continuing to fight a 2011 veto of a West Virginia strip mining permit. Late last month in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Arch's Mingo Logan Coal ...