New Mapping Tool Visualizes 30 Years of Mountaintop Removal

Yale e360
Jul 27, 2018, 1:11 pm167 pts
From 1985 to 2015, coal companies blasted an average of 21,000 acres of Appalachian land every year in search of coal — an area about half the size of Washington, D.C., according to a new satellite mapping tool that allows users to track mountaintop removal over the last three decades in 74 key coal-mining…

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