Form of surface mining that involves the mining of the summit or summit ridge of a mountain.
1Activists have fought a losing legal battle against mountaintop removal mining.
2RAN is part of a broad coalition fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal.
3For more on what mountaintop removal mining means, environmentally and humanly, read my article on it.
4In addition to the negative impact on employment, mountaintop removal has terrible effects on the land.
5It's cheaper and more efficient than old-fashioned mining, but the effects of mountaintop removal -or MTR -are devastating.
6The Sierra Club called it a bold new policy to protect communities and waterways from the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining.
7The bulk of my research was geared toward the mountaintop removals.
8Mountaintop removal mining is devastating the Appalachian mountains in the US.
9Mountaintop removal, West Virginia.
10Mountaintop removal has destroyed 500 Appalachian mountains, decimated 1 million acres of forest, and buried 2000 miles of streams.