Article: Environmentalists see win in fight against mountaintop removal in West Virginia.

Article: Corps says it doesn't regulate valley fills: Stance could ...
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  July 19, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... the lawsuit. Army Corps of Engineers officials don't believe mountaintop removal waste piles, called ... environmentalists alleged that the corps has improperly issued ... of 404 permits for mountaintop removal mine valley fills. The suit also alleges the corps has never ...

Article: Experts testify on damage from mining: Lawsuit targets ...
Charleston Gazette;  October 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Pflugh, said the corps wrongly used government ... maps found that mountaintop removal is burying large ... damage. "The Corps of Engineers is ... lawyer for the corps, said her agency believes mountaintop removal, and the reclamation ...

Article: EPA to Corps of Engineers: Mountaintop ...
Targeted News Service;  March 24, 2009 ;     517 words ... ... practices," including mountaintop removal mining. "This is ... when it comes to mountaintop removal mining. Today ... the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers demonstrate ... destructive impact that mountaintop removal mining has on streams ...

Article: EPA blocks Massey mine: ; Corps had issued ...
Charleston Gazette;  January 5, 2001 ;     660 words ... ... T. Massey Coal Co. mountaintop removal mine in Eastern Kentucky ... Hankinson ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to suspend a permit that the corps already issued for the ... district engineer for the corps. In June, the corps approved ...

Article: Court reinstates streamlined mountaintop removal ...
Charleston Daily Mail;  November 24, 2005 ;     608 words ... ... streamlined permitting for mountaintop removal coal mines in West Virginia ... issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers under the Nationwide ... ruling Wednesday that the corps complied with the Clean Water Act. Corps spokesman Chuck Minsker ...

Article: Appeals court reinstates Corps of Engineers permits for ...
AP Worldstream;  November 23, 2005 ;     252 words ... ... reinstated a streamlined Army Corps of Engineers process for granting permits for mountaintop-removal coal mining in West Virginia ... judge, finding that the corps complied with the Clean ... permits issued by the Corps. Among other things ...

Article: Mountaintop Removal Mining Permits Illegal
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 26, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... headwater streams near five mountaintop removal mines in West Virginia. The Corps failed to demonstrate that mountaintop removal mining valley fills ... decision puts in doubt the Corps' ability to permit mountaintop removal mines without wholesale ...