Article: Mountaintop removal fight expands to courts

MORGANTOWN - The fight over mountaintop removal mining in Southern West Virginia's coalfields has expanded to a second front - the courtroom.

Virginia-based Massey Energy has filed three lawsuits so far this year against environmental activists who have staged more than a dozen acts of civil disobedience to pressure the nation's fourth- largest coal company to abandon the destructive form of strip mining.

Massey did not immediately comment on its cases Wednesday, but court filings suggest the protesters are having a measurable, if minor, impact on the bottom line: In one lawsuit, Massey claims a single action - the 31/2-hour occupation of a dragline at Progress Coal's Twilight mine June 18 - ...

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