Residents of southern West Virginia react to a recent directive by the Environmental Protection Agency that seemed to first crack down on mountaintop mining but then ease off. Mountaintop mining is the process of blasting the peaks off mountains to get the coal inside.
Future Grows More Hazy For Mountaintop Mining Article | ETHEL, W.Va. -- In one of the deepest, steepest corners of Appalachia, where the most important industry is shearing mountains down to flat-top stumps, everybody wants the same answer.
