Browsing W&L Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability by Subject "Coal mines and mining -- Environmental aspects"
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Mountaintop Removal and Poverty in West Virginia
Mountaintop removal (MTR) is a method of strip mining coal where the tops of mountains are blasted off with explosives to expose buried coal. (Defenders of Appalachia, p. 2). MTR is the most efficient, profitable way to ...