Mountaintop Mining Is Destroying More Land for Less Coal, Study Finds

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By James BruggersJul 26, 2018, 3:50 am280 ptsTrending
Using satellite images, researchers tracked the scars across Appalachia. They found 3 times more land being stripped per ton of coal produced than in the 1980s. By James Bruggers Strip mining across the mountaintops of Appalachia is scarring as much as three times more land to get a ton of coal than just three…

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