Download or read book Stream Pollution from Coal Mining in Appalachia written by Geological Survey (U.S.). Temporary Committee on Acid-Water Mine Drainage and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stream Pollution by Coal Mine Drainage in Appalachia written by United States. Federal Water Pollution Control Administration and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stream Pollution by Coal Mine Drainage in Appalachia written by U S Environmental Protection Agency and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.
Download or read book The Impacts of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining on Water Quality in Appalachia written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development of Water Resources in Appalachia The incidence and formation of mine drainage pollution written by United States. Office of Appalachian Studies and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appalachia s Coal Mined Landscapes written by Carl E. Zipper and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Desperate written by Kris Maher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Appalachian coal country, this “superb” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) legal drama follows one determined lawyer as he faces a coal industry giant in a seven-year battle over clean drinking water for a West Virginia community. For two decades, the water in the taps and wells of Mingo County didn’t look, smell, or taste right. Could the water be the root of the health problems—from kidney stones to cancer—in this Appalachian community? Environmental lawyer Kevin Thompson certainly thought so. For seven years, Thompson waged an epic legal battle against Massey Energy, West Virginia’s most powerful coal company, helmed by CEO Don Blankenship. While Massey’s lawyers worked out of a gray glass office tower in Charleston known as “the Death Star,” Thompson set up shop in a ramshackle hotel in the fading coal town of Williamson. Working with fellow lawyers and a crew of young activists, Thompson would eventually uncover the ruthless shortcuts that put the community’s drinking water at risk. Retired coal miners, women whose families had lived in the area’s coal camps for generations, a respected preacher and his brother, all put their trust in Thompson when they had nowhere else to turn. Desperate is a masterful work of investigative reporting about greed and denial, “both a case study in exploitation of the little guy and a playbook for confronting it” (Kirkus Reviews). Maher crafts a revealing portrait of a town besieged by hardship and heartbreak, and an inspiring account of one tenacious environmental lawyer’s mission to expose the truth and demand justice.
Download or read book A Study of Appalachia s Coal Mining Communities and Associated Environmental Problems written by Ronald Lee Kolbash and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development of Water Resources in Appalachia written by United States. Office of Appalachian Studies and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Acid Mine Drainage in Appalachia Appendix A F written by Appalachian Regional Commission and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fighting King Coal written by Shannon Elizabeth Bell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements. In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge. In Fighting King Coal, Shannon Elizabeth Bell examines an understudied puzzle within social movement theory: why so few of the many people who suffer from industry-produced environmental hazards and pollution rise up to participate in social movements aimed at bringing about social justice and industry accountability. Using the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia as a case study, Bell investigates the challenges of micromobilization through in-depth interviews, participant observation, content analysis, geospatial viewshed analysis, and an eight-month “Photovoice” project—an innovative means of studying, in real time, the social dynamics affecting activist involvement in the region. Although the Photovoice participants took striking photographs and wrote movingly about the environmental destruction caused by coal production, only a few became activists. Bell reveals the importance of local identities to the success or failure of local recruitment efforts in social movement struggles, ultimately arguing that, if the local identities of environmental justice movements are lost, the movements may also lose their power.
Download or read book Development of Water Resources of Appalachia Volume 18 Appendix C The Incidence and Formation of Mine Drainage Pollution written by CORPS OF ENGINEERS CINCINNATI OHIO. and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document furnishes information on mine drainage pollution of Appalachian streams. Effluent from coal mining activities is the major source of water pollution in most of the Appalachian coal basin. The pollution problems result from mineral acidity created when pyritic material, exposed during mining, is oxidized and the products are dissolved and carried into streams and lakes. Erosion and resultant sedimentation of the streams and lakes is another pressing problem connected with mining. Other factors contributing to reduced water quality during and after mining, i.e., hardness and mineralization, are problems, but they do not appear to be as important as acidity and sediments.
Download or read book Challenges for Appalachia energy Environment and Natural Resources written by Appalachian Regional Commission and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survey of Blasting Effects on Ground Water Supplies in Appalachia written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining written by Jenifer Garlitz and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We turn on our air conditioning and TV and plug in our chargers without an awareness of where the energy for our electricity comes from. We don't know that about half of our electricity comes from coal. We don't know that some of this coal comes from mountaintop removal coal mining that has devastated families and communities throughout the Appalachian Mountains. Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: Why Mountains Are Going Missing and What We Can Do About Itis a resource for understanding and connecting the dots between flipping on the light switch and coal mining, flooding in Appalachia, air and water pollution, health problems, and global warming. Reader-friendly and hopeful, this book offers suggestions for how each of us can make our voices heard and make changes in our everyday lives to prevent further destruction of our country's majestic mountains and our magnificent planet. Jenifer Garlitz grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. She is refreshed spending time in the Appalachian Forest of southwestern Pennsylvania every summer. She received a bachelor's degree in elementary education and a master's degree in reading and literacy. She has worked for over ten years as a reading teacher and a reading specialist. Presently, she lives in Joliet, Illinois, with her husband and teenage son. In addition to working as a reading specialist at Creekside School in Plainfield, Illinois, she leads an Environment Club for fifth grade students at her school. Besides her work, she enjoys gardening, biking, reading, and visiting with her therapy dog.
Download or read book Surface Coal Mining written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surface mining for coal in Appalachia has generated opposition because rock and dirt from mountaintops is often removed and placed in nearby valleys and streams. The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) in the Department of the Interior and states with approved programs regulate these mines under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA). The Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and states also regulate different aspects of coal mining, including the filling of valley streams, under the Clean Water Act. Under SMCRA, mine operators must provide financial assurances sufficient to allow mines to be reclaimed. Under the Clean Water Act, the Corps may require financial assurances that the impact of mines on streams can be mitigated. GAO was asked to examine (1) the approaches OSM, the states, and the Corps have taken to obtain financial assurances for surface coal mines with valley fills; (2) federal and state agencies' monitoring of these mines after reclamation and mitigation are complete; and (3) the federal laws agencies may use, and have used, to address latent environmental problems. GAO gathered information from state and federal agencies in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West...
Download or read book Environmental Impacts of Mountaintop Mines and Valley Fills on Stream Ecosystems in Central Appalachia written by Julian M. Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work assesses the state of the science on the environmental impacts of mountaintop mines and valley fills on streams in the Central Appalachian coalfields. These coalfields cover about 48,000 square kilometres (12 million acres) in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.
