The brutally efficient coal-extraction method known as “longwall mining” has permanently damaged a half dozen streams in Pennsylvania, state regulators have found — a finding that could trigger deeper waves for such operations in the state. In December, the state’s Department of Environmental Protection, or DEP, sent a little-noticed letter relaying its unusual decision to […]
Category: Longwall Mining
The Center investigated the social and environmental impacts of longwall’s full-extraction method. The result? Residents have had to sacrifice their way of life for “clean coal.”
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Undermined
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The big seep
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