"… g cancer in miners may finally be published this fall — but only after a mining industry group, represented by the Washington lobbying powerhouse Patton B …"

"… ing, however, Patton Boggs lawyer and partner Henry Chajet, representing a mining industry alliance, the Methane Awareness Resource Group Diesel Coalition, …"

"… ul at capitalizing on that dysfunction,” she said.Monforton believes the mining industry group’s demand to see drafts of the cancer study is part of a c …"

"… y goal is to provide the subjects of the cancer study — both workers and mining companies — with details on how the study was conducted and its results. …"

"… s of Engineers recommending denial of at least two permits for mountaintop mining because of the potential environmental harm from dumping associated debris …"

"… ot halting, holding or placing a moratorium” on any applications for the mining industry to dispose of its overburden in waterway areas or streams. The fi …"

"… t, is signaling a major shift from the Bush administration’s mountaintop mining policy.In mountaintop mining, miners use explosives to blast away summits …"

"… from the Bush administration’s mountaintop mining policy.In mountaintop mining, miners use explosives to blast away summits and expose seams of coal. Hug …"

"… we’re talking about,” Warne says. …"

"… n rights abuses.The National mining Association, which represents 325 U.S. mining companies, and the British-based World Gold Council each wrote to the SEC …"

"… g for an extra 30 days to respond, moving the deadline back to March 2.The mining industry is well known in Washington. Since 2008, the National mining Asso …"

"… minerals and report payments made to governments for oil, natural gas, and mining development.Republican Spencer Bachus, the new chairman of the House Finan …"

"… ared the way for a resurgence of environmentally damaging mountaintop coal mining, using a rule change that legalized filling valleys with debris. The resul …"

"… he valley below. It puts fewer miners at risk than traditional underground mining. But across Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia, the Environmental Prote …"

"… ion and the natural drainage patterns altered, communities below blame the mining for flooding and drinking-water pollution. Until the federal government’ …"

"… pollution. Until the federal government’s 2002 rule change, mountaintop mining had ebbed in the late 1990s thanks in part to lawsuits. Now, the Departmen …"

"… r-long investigation into the social and environmental impacts of longwall mining centered on hundreds of pages of documents obtained from government source …"

"… otes on Stream Damage — These are the notes on record in a district mining office of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) do …"

"… structural damages only, as well as his appeal of DEP’s finding that the mining did not destroy his pond.4. A mining Violation — Here’s a ty …"

"… pical violation issued by DEP against Consol for failing to abide by state mining regulations; in this case, it’s for not reporting damage complaints made …"

"… oopholes, though it would still leave much of the sampling in the hands of mining companies. Last December, House Republicans inserted language in a previou …"

"… tions committee, are up for re-election this year, and both count the coal mining industry among their top donors. Rogers, a Kentucky Republican, has long b …"

"… gers, a Kentucky Republican, has long been a champion of the industry, and mining companies have donated more to his campaigns over the years – about $378 …"

"… ove miners’ health.” The association, which represents primarily large mining companies, believes the increase in black lung is a regional problem conce …"

"… igh levels of toxic compounds in soil and water around mountaintop-removal mining sites in central Appalachia, a potentially groundbreaking finding with hum …"

"… ting air, water and soil, researchers concluded that people in mountaintop mining communities in southern West Virginia live in an environment with signific …"

"… umented health problems in the region are linked, at least in part, to the mining operations.Bill Orem, USGS research geochemist and project chief, said min …"

"… ing operations.Bill Orem, USGS research geochemist and project chief, said mining areas display “unusually high” pH and conductivity levels in the water …"

"… ether in a national, classified data system that enables the extraordinary mining and sharing of police intelligence, while also adopting spy methods to gat …"

"… bombs, and engage in “unlawful assembly,” all for the purposes of undermining the Republican National Convention.But there wasn’t a consensus about th …"

"… ycles.Police in Minnesota downplay the reach of its fusion center. “Data mining doesn’t make any sense,” said center director and career police invest …"

"… trade associations and institutes. Backing them are interests ranging from mining companies like Brazil’s SAMA to manufacturers of asbestos cement sheets …"

"… ude less hazardous than brown or blue asbestos, which the industry stopped mining in the 1990s. “It’s an extremely valuable material,” argues Dr. J. C …"

"… s the primary booster, a role it assumed in the 1960s when the country’s mining industry in Quebec was threatened by studies tying the mineral to cancer. …"

"… cancers at strikingly high rates.A lesson from tobacco?Minutes of the mining association’s November 1965 meeting, obtained by lawyers for asbestos vi …"