I've always felt that too many businesses see customers as a resource to be exploited. So I'm pleased to find that RightNow Technologies CEO Greg Gianforte has come up with a great new analogy for ...

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 ...

When strip mining for coal ended more than 30 years ago in southeast Kansas, thousands of acres of scarred land were abandoned. For decades, steam and electric shovels cleared away the topsoil to get ...

Obama Ends 150-Year War of Strip-Mining in 24 States: Mountaintop Removal Loses Its Groove. Yeah, I’ve been wanting to wake up to that headline for years, too. Instead, I read another Coal Tattoo ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CS) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers trampled environmental law by allowing the strip-mining of 7,687 acres of wetlands and streams, a process that leads to the ...

Until three years ago, Sam Gilbert’s neighborhood in this secluded mountain nook consisted of vegetation, salamanders in the creek and lush mountain peaks. Then a noisy strip mining operation hunkered ...

At issue | Jan. 23 Herald-Leader editorial, "Strip-mining would destroy historic towns; state should protect water, landscape near Lynch, Benham" The month of January is a most appropriate time to ...

LAUREL RUN – Almost half a century ago an entire section of the borough was abandoned, and Mary Yuknavich remembers it well. Taking a drive along Northampton Street up Giants Despair on Friday, ...

PITTSBURG — It would be easy to consider the mounds and valleys that remain from the years of mining in southeast Kansas as a scar on the land. But with years of work and nature reclaiming what is its ...

Two former mining regulators want an investigation into just how badly strip mining impacted the recent, deadly Eastern Kentucky floods. “If you get an area that has been strip mined, and the soil has ...