Coal Study Suggests Mountaintop-Removal is Toxic for People

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Coal Study Suggests Mountaintop-Removal is Toxic for People

by The Investigative Newswire on July 20, 2012 · comment

Fifth image in a series showing a mountaintop removal mining explosive blast in Eunice, WV. photo: Roston (Wikimedia Commons)

Study finds toxins from mountaintop coal mining sites by Alice Su for iWatch News The U.S. Geological Survey has found high levels of toxic compounds in soil and water around mountaintop-removal mining sites in central Appalachia, a potentially [...]

EPA ‘Grossly Delinquent’ in Regulating Industry to Comply by Air Emission Standards

by The Investigative Newswire on November 21, 2011 · comment

Why Americans still breathe known hazards decades after ‘clean air’ law Politics, industry and ‘hopelessly irrational’ EPA stymie air toxics crackdown By Jim Morris and Corbin Hiar for iwatch news The stumbling, two-decade-old war on hazardous air pollutants — declared on Nov. [...]