Last weekend a group of Virginia Tech students and Blacksburg community members took a trip to the mountains of West Virginia. They were not there to camp or hike, but to hear from one man about the ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers took overdue action last week when it suspended an expedited permitting process for stream dumping of waste from mountaintop mining in Virginia and several other ...

Environmental activists gained more momentum this year than in the past decade against the destructive, uniquely Appalachian form of strip mining known as mountaintop removal, though they have yet to ...

The Obama administration will announce plans today to tighten scrutiny of mountaintop coal mining, in an effort to reduce environmental damage from operations that shear off peaks and fill Appalachian ...