The Impacts Of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining On Water Quality In Appalachia
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The Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining on Water Quality in Appalachia
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Appalachian Region |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105050693550 |
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Mountaintop Mining valley Fills in Appalachia
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NWU:35556036064632 |
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Environmental Impacts of Mountaintop Mines and Valley Fills on Stream Ecosystems in Central Appalachia
Author | : Julian M. Wagner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1629480975 |
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This book assesses the state of the science on the environmental impacts of mountaintop mines and valley fills (MTM-VF) on streams in the Central Appalachian Coalfields. These coalfields cover about 48,000 square kilometers (12 million acres) in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee, USA. This book focuses on the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining, which, as its name suggests, involves removing all--or some portion--of the top of a mountain or ridge to expose and mine one or more coal seams. The excess overburden is disposed of in constructed fills in small valleys or hollows adjacent to the mining site. Conclusions are drawn, based on evidence from peer-reviewed literature, and from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement released in 2005, and that MTM-VF lead directly to five principal alterations of stream ecosystems: (1) springs, and ephemeral, intermittent, and small perennial streams are permanently lost with the removal of the mountain and from burial under fill, (2) concentrations of major chemical ions are persistently elevated downstream, (3) degraded water quality reaches levels that are acutely lethal to standard laboratory test organisms, (4) selenium concentrations are elevated, reaching concentrations that have caused toxic effects in fish and birds and (5) macroinvertebrate and fish communities are consistently degraded.
Plundering Appalachia
Author | : Tom Butler |
Publsiher | : Earth Aware Editions |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-09-29 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1601090501 |
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The Appalachian mountain range is the oldest in the world and it's disappearing one mountain top at a time. Plundering Appalachia takes a bold look at the out-of-control strip mining in the American heartland and its threat to our environment. The Appalachians are the oldest mountains in the world, and they are literally disappearing. The term “mountaintop removal mining,” coined to describe the coal-mining process currently at work in much of Appalachia, is in reality, exactly what the name suggests: a mountain, formed over millions of years, is decapitated with explosives—the “overburden” scraped into adjacent valleys—and the exposed coal collected. No living thing survives this “removal,” and if the land is replanted, its ecosystem will be nothing like that of the ancient mountaintop it previously held. The process is not only destructive and toxic, but ultimately unsustainable: not one of the four hundred plus mountains blasted has yet grown back. Plundering Appalachia is a collection of photographs and essays presenting the grim realities of mountaintop removal mining: The effects of the blasting on the environment and the people and animals in its wake. The irreversible devastation of the natural landscape of Appalachia. How mountaintop removal is or is not regulated The true costs of the practice over time. Most people in the United States are connected to mountaintop removal in some way. Even if they have never visited the Appalachians, they consume products derived from the mining haul or they are affected by the drastic changes the mining has on their ecosystem. The contributors to Plundering Appalachia clearly wish to empower a nation to action—to get past the rhetoric of the coal industry and see the real Appalachia. It is a plea for a region whose natural beauty deserves to be enjoyed by future generations. Includes essays by: David W. Orr, Vivian Stockman, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Ross Gelbspan, Richard Heinberg, Carl Pope, Denise Giardina, Lisa Evans, Ken Hechler, Jerry Hardt, Wendell Berry and more.
Lost Mountain
Author | : Erik Reece |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2007-02-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1594482365 |
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A new form of strip mining has caused a state of emergency for the Appalachian wilderness and the communities that depend on it-a crisis compounded by issues of government neglect, corporate hubris, and class conflict. In this powerful call to arms, Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent witnessing the systematic decimation of a single mountain and offers a landmark defense of a national treasure threatened with extinction.
Appalachia s Coal Mined Landscapes
Author | : Carl E. Zipper,Jeff Skousen |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2020-11-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783030577803 |
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This book collects and summarizes current scientific knowledge concerning coal-mined landscapes of the Appalachian region in eastern United States. Containing contributions from authors across disciplines, the book addresses topics relevant to the region’s coal-mining history and its future; its human communities; and the soils, waters, plants, wildlife, and human-use potentials of Appalachia’s coal-mined landscapes. The book provides a comprehensive overview of coal mining’s legacy in Appalachia, USA. It book describes the resources of the Appalachian coalfield, its lands and waters, and its human communities – as they have been left in the aftermath of intensive mining, drawing upon peer-reviewed science and other regional data to provide clear and objective descriptions. By understanding the Appalachian experience, officials and planners in other resource extraction- affected world regions can gain knowledge and perspectives that will aid their own efforts to plan and manage for environmental quality and for human welfare. Appalachia's Coal-Mined Landscapes: Resources and Communities in a New Energy Era will be of use to natural resource managers and scientists within Appalachia and in other world regions experiencing widespread mining, researchers with interest in the region’s disturbance legacy, and economic and community planners concerned with Appalachia’s future.
Environmental Aspects of Coal Production in the Appalachian Region
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Coal mines and mining |
ISBN | : IND:30000105963353 |
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Removing Mountains
Author | : Rebecca R. Scott |
Publsiher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780816665990 |
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An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.