Mountaintop Removal Mining - Pollution

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Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Contaminates Snowpack across a Broad Region.

Issue Release: 2024

Legacy coal mining impacts downstream ecosystems for decades in the Canadian Rockies.

Issue Release: 2024

Mountaintop removal coal mining impacts on structural and functional indicators in Central Appalachian streams.

Issue Release: 2023

Maternal proximity to mountain-top removal mining and birth defects in Appalachian Kentucky, 1997-2003.

Issue Release: 2022

Linking mountaintop removal mining to water quality for imperiled species using satellite data.

Issue Release: 2021

Surface mining and low birth weight in central appalachia.

Issue Release: 2020

Contaminant Subsidies to Riparian Food Webs in Appalachian Streams Impacted by Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining.

Issue Release: 2020

Using residential histories in case-control analysis of lung cancer and mountaintop removal coal mining in Central Appalachia.

Issue Release: 2020

Chemistry of streams draining mined and unmined watersheds in the mountaintop mined landscape of Central Appalachia, USA.

Issue Release: 2020

Increased Dementia Mortality in West Virginia Counties with Mountaintop Removal Mining?

Issue Release: 2019

Mountaintop removal mining and multiple illness symptoms: A latent class analysis.

Issue Release: 2018

Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Emergent Cases of Psychological Disorder in Kentucky.

Issue Release: 2017

Creating a More Perennial Problem? Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Enhances and Sustains Saline Baseflows of Appalachian Watersheds.

Issue Release: 2017

Systematic review of community health impacts of mountaintop removal mining.

Issue Release: 2017

Under siege: Isolated tributaries are threatened by regionally impaired metacommunities.

Issue Release: 2016

Microchemical analysis of selenium in otoliths of two West Virginia fishes captured near mountaintop removal coal mining operations.

Issue Release: 2015

Cardiac and mitochondrial dysfunction following acute pulmonary exposure to mountaintop removal mining particulate matter.

Issue Release: 2015

An examination of the effects of mountaintop removal coal mining on respiratory symptoms and COPD using propensity scores.

Issue Release: 2014

Bioaccumulation and speciation of selenium in fish and insects collected from a mountaintop removal coal mining-impacted stream in West Virginia.

Issue Release: 2014

Atmospheric particulate matter in proximity to mountaintop coal mines: sources and potential environmental and human health impacts.

Issue Release: 2014

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