• DOI:10.1126/science.1180543
Corpus ID: 206522928

Mountaintop Mining Consequences

@article{Palmer2010MountaintopMC,
  title={Mountaintop Mining Consequences},
  author={M. Palmer and E. Bernhardt and W. H. Schlesinger and K. N. Eshleman and E. Foufoula-Georgiou and M. Hendryx and A. Lemly and G. E. Likens and O. L. Loucks and M. Power and P. S. White and P. Wilcock},
  journal={Science},
  year={2010},
  volume={327},
  pages={148 - 149}
}

M. Palmer, E. Bernhardt, +9 authors P. Wilcock

Published 2010

Geography, Medicine

Science

Damage to ecosystems and threats to human health and the lack of effective mitigation require new approaches to mining regulation. There has been a global, 30-year increase in surface mining (1), which is now the dominant driver of land-use change in the central Appalachian ecoregion of the United States (2). One major form of such mining, mountaintop mining with valley fills (MTM/VF) (3), is widespread throughout eastern Kentucky, West Virginia (WV), and southwestern Virginia. Upper elevation… CONTINUE READING

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