Large areas have been destroyed and fragmented through surface mining, including mountaintop removal.

Others believe stopping mountaintop removal would eliminate the few jobs that remain.

There is no tension between being committed to his faith and supporting mountaintop removal.

With mountaintop removal, the ancient forests won't come back in a hurry.

Sometimes, coal is extracted from a mountain by using a process called mountaintop removal.

Several studies of the impact of restrictions to mountaintop removal were authored in 2000 through 2005.

Environmentalists say mountaintop removal has despoiled 1,000 miles of streams.

Think of the impact of acid rain and mountaintop removal.

In 1999, he ruled that state agencies had failed to enforce federal environmental protection laws affecting mountaintop removal.

The group was seeking a ban on mountaintop removal or surface mining.