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Feb 24
Should Arch Coal Be Allowed to Destroy Historic Blair Mountain?
St. Louis-based Arch Coal reared its head as the king of hubris a year ago, refusing to pay an extra 55 cents a ton for coal in order to meet proper U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Clean Water Act standards for a controversial mountaintop removal operation in West Virginia.
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Feb 22
The Health Impacts of Mountaintop Removal and Coal Mining
From Coal River Mountain Watch
On this page you can access the most recent scientific peer reviewed research on the health impacts of MTR and coal mining in general on local communities. The research is listed in order of publication date. Six of the studies are specific to mountaintop removal. Each page includes a summary of the purpose, results, and important quotes as well as a link to the full article. Note: These summary pages are written as introductions to the studies. Please refer specifically to the attached papers to quote directly from the authors.
2011
Ahern, M., M. Hendryx, J. Conley, E. Fedorko, A. Ducatman, and K. Zullig. (2011) “The association between mountaintop mining and birth defects among live births in central Appalachia, 1996–2003.”
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