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Reading Time: 6 minutes Longwall Mining Stories in this series Undermined By Kristen Lombardi January 12, 2009 The big seep By Kristen Lombardi January 12, 2009 New scrutiny of ‘longwall’ mining finds...
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The big seep
Reading Time: 38 minutes The sound of the longwall machine hits you first, a steady churning, methodical chomping that seems to emanate from everywhere at once. Stand before the six-foot-high layer of...
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Undermined
Reading Time: 38 minutes Rebecca Foley, by contrast, seems desperate to discuss that topic. Sitting at a cluttered desk in her library, she talks a blue streak about the seven-year battle that she’s...
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The hidden costs of clean coal
Reading Time: 2 minutes Down in Washington, Pennsylvania, an hour’s drive southwest from Pittsburgh, one message can be found plastered on billboards, newspapers, even diner placemats. It reads: “Coal,...
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Longwall Mining Stories in this series Undermined By Kristen Lombardi January 12, 2009 The big seep By Kristen Lombardi January 12, 2009 New scrutiny of ‘longwall’ mining finds...
View ArticleFirst longwall mine in six years underway
Reading Time: 2 minutes Score one for King Coal in northern Appalachia. Today’s boom in the coalfields of southwestern Pennsylvania — where the 42.7 million tons extracted in 2007 fetches double its...
View ArticleLongwall coal mine companies push to “downgrade” stream pollution controls
Reading Time: 2 minutes Much has been made about the Bush administration’s 11th hour repeal of a key rule meant to keep coal-slurry waste out of Appalachian streams — a repeal that went into effect...
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New scrutiny of ‘longwall’ mining finds damage in Pennsylvania streams
Reading Time: 7 minutes Kim Jones has a hard time explaining the disappearance of the once-gushing stream to her children, Kaitlyn and D.J. Steven Sunshine The brutally efficient coal-extraction method...
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