Much better, for example, compared to strip-mining coal. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 21, 2008] Reference
Remarkable story about strip-mining, farming and resurgence. From Wordnik.com. [GL, The man who created paradise (a fable)] Reference
Later that year he introduced a bill to abolished strip-mining. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: Reckoning at Coal River: Media and Nation Must Bear Witness to Coalfield Tragedy This Week] Reference
But courtesy of his strip-mining, Michael E. is now a billionaire. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Mines That Keep Giving] Reference
It uncovers the devastating environmental consequences of industrial strip-mining. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: Take Off Broadway, Off Coal: Love, in the Time of Blasting] Reference
Hechler introduced the first federal bill to abolish strip-mining in the spring of 1971. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: Rep. Hechler to President Obama: Time for a Harry S. Truman Moment in the Coalfields] Reference
There are alternatives to strip-mining, including underground mining, that may not destroy the site. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: Make History: Sign the National Trust Petition to Save Blair Mountain from Mountaintop Removal] Reference
Others, like Steve Earle's strip-mining protest, "The Mountain," may as well have been written then. From Wordnik.com. [Not Far From 'Big Pink,'] Reference
Say we are talking to a citizen at the ATM, "We have evidence your bank is involved in strip-mining.". From Wordnik.com. [Reverend Billy: The Uprising] Reference
UBS is no stranger to controversial strip-mining operations -- or American banking scandals for that matter. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: Like Blowing Up the Alps: Is Swiss Bank UBS the Last Financier of Massey's Big Coal Mayhem?] Reference
In 1971, Hechler took the lead in dealing with another coal mining issue: strip-mining and mountaintop removal. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: Rep. Hechler to President Obama: Time for a Harry S. Truman Moment in the Coalfields] Reference
Nowhere has the debate between the advocates of tourism and strip-mining been as fever-pitched as in Tennessee. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Shapley: To Vacation or Not, in Tennessee? That Is the Question (for the Coal Industry and the NRDC)] Reference
In a line: Mountaintop removal and strip-mining have stripped jobs, stripped economies, and stripped the people. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: SOS: Day 12,065 of Mountaintop Removal Disaster: Appalachia is Rising (Again)] Reference
Join our efforts in opposing strip-mining of the historic Blair Mountain Battlefield in Logan County, West Virginia. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: Make History: Sign the National Trust Petition to Save Blair Mountain from Mountaintop Removal] Reference
After all the colonists had been killed, the Rraey transported down platforms to begin strip-mining Coral's islands. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mans War] Reference
They are the sorts that are used on strip-mining operations, something you would never expect to see on a city street. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2001] Reference
Register may be a first step toward strip-mining the mountain for coal production, which will destroy the historic site. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: Mountaintop Removal Mayhem: Blair Mtn Scandal (Feds See Dead People), Coal Profits Soar, EPA Disses Scientists] Reference
Do we care about the poor and unemployed, or rebuilding America's economic base instead of strip-mining the future for greed?. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Loeb: Suppose Your Actions Swung the Election] Reference
In fact, common clay-based kitty litter is actually helping to destroy mountains, because it is acquired through strip-mining. From Wordnik.com. [Cat Litter: Sustainable Choices For Environmentally-Friendly Pets] Reference
The defense of mountaintop-removal mining -- as formerly with strip-mining -- is that the economy of Appalachia depends on it. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Pope: Lord, Give Me Time] Reference
Now, this is a true statement, sadly proven again and again by their funding of mountaintop removal strip-mining in Appalachia. From Wordnik.com. [What Should I Do If There's A Mountain In My Lobby?] Reference
They're starving because we can't support seven billion people in North American – style prosperity without strip-mining the planet. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
The EPA said the new rule is intended to reduce the impacts of strip-mining for coal and provide clearer standards for mining near water. From Wordnik.com. [EPA Backs Rule Easing Mining- Waste Disposal] Reference
So, the coalfields are rising -- just as they did in the 1960s and 1970s when a vibrant national movement rose up to abolish strip-mining. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: Enthusiasm Gap? Coalfields Rising, Baby (VIDEO)] Reference
Coming from a hardrock mining state, I recognize the t-shirt as a depiction of strip-mining the top off that otherwise-worthless mountain. From Wordnik.com. [All You Riders Flog My Product: Epics in the Service of Publicity] Reference
Stephen Gordon points out that the aliens Independence Day were interested in strip-mining the Earth for its resources - a Type I interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: From 0 to III in Less Than 100,000 Years] Reference
If we can end the war in Iraq, why can't we end the 150-year strip-mining wars and transition to renewable energy sources for our electricity?. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: SOS: Day 12,065 of Mountaintop Removal Disaster: Appalachia is Rising (Again)] Reference
In fact, environmentalists distressed by strip-mining here on Earth are going to hate the far future, when we will strip-mine entire solar systems. From Wordnik.com. [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference
Today, strip-mining continues in southern and central Illinois, while devastating longwall mining has undermined thousands of acres of fertile farmland. From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: How Green is Chicago? Eight Arrested at Deadly Fisk Coal-Fired Plant] Reference
(A follow-up interview with Hechler, who led a national campaign for the abolition of strip-mining in the 1960s and 1970s, will be released later this week.). From Wordnik.com. [Jeff Biggers: Raising the Dead: Memorial Day Activists Jailed in Protest to Stop 998 Coal Sludge Deaths] Reference
In the past several years, the nation's museums have been strip-mining their collections to raise funds that, by rights, they should be soliciting from donors. From Wordnik.com. [Stripping the Walls to Cover the Bills] Reference
Many are focused on the environment and seek to ease regulations that limit pollution or restrict harmful industrial practices, such as dumping strip-mining waste. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bush sneaks through host of laws to undermine Obama] Reference
Many are focused on the environment and seek to ease regulations that limit pollution or restrict harmful industrial practices, such as dumping strip-mining waste. '. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bush sneaks through host of laws to undermine Obama] Reference
Hechler was the leader of the fight in the 1970s to stop strip-mining -- a fight that seemingly ended in victory when Congress passed the Surface Mining Reclamation Act of 1977. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Pope: Lord, Give Me Time] Reference
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