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Of course, clean coal technology does not diminish the environmental costs of extraction - to flora and fauna, and also to human well-being - say critics. Mountaintop mining destroys the natural habitats of many local species, whether endangered ones such as flying squirrels or flourishing ones like salamanders. Further, mountaintop debris...
What can be measured are chemicals like arsenic, lead, mercury, magnesium and selenium that leach into water sources from mining waste. Toxins have been found in high concentrations downstream of mountaintop mining sites, killing fish and threatening human health, according to biologist Dennis Lemly of Wake Forest University. Some residents...
If anti-mining activists cannot stop coal extraction altogether, they are hoping to appeal to the EPA to at least regulate it through the Clean Water Protection Act, which is currently sitting in the House. The bill would close a loophole in the Clean Water Act of 1972 and halt...
Lindytown's neighbors in Twilight, just two miles up the main road, are beginning to share similar stories of being pressured to sell their property. "I've been to places like Whitesville, Lindytown. These are ghost towns, where Massey has come in and bought out the towns, forced out the...
Massey characterizes the situation differently: "We were mining nearby and a lot of [Lindytown] residents approached us, interested in selling their homes," says company spokesperson Jeff Gillenwater; only then did Massey make offers to buy their property in an effort to protect residents' well-being. "We did it as an...