Article discusses health effects, environmental hazards, poisoning from chemicals and social effects. Includes recommendations for policy guidelines. By E.K. Agyapong, University of Ghana, Legon.
Seeks to develop and establish a voluntary system to independently verify compliance with environmental, human rights and social standards for mining operations. Includes documents and updates.
Empowering activists and communities opposed to mining through information on global mining trends, specific projects and mining industry attempts to subvert legitimate protest. Includes news.
Documentation of history and current events of 1872 mining law reform actions in U.S. Congress along with data on problems with mining and causes for delays in reform.
Archive of Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette articles on mountaintop removal, accompanied by text of US court rulings and a draft version of the never-published environmental impact statement on the practice.
Extensive photographs of overflights of mountaintop removal mining sites. Includes highlights of the tour and testimonials of people living in the affected region.
Information about mountain top mining and valley fill, and the environmental damage this practice is causing around the state and in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina.
Case study examines the legal strategies and techniques used in a series of environmental lawsuits. Includes litigation history. [PDF] (August 2, 2007)
Bob Abernethy interviews religious critics who say the price, in human terms, of mountaintop removal mining is too high. Includes the video report. (February 2, 2007)
Report examines whether the WVDEP uses appropriate standards in evaluating whether a particular postmining land configuration constitutes a return to AOC, and if waivers have been issued, have they required appropriate postmining land uses in granting the waiver. (November 1, 1988)
