These effects are evident as coal-mining declines to levels last seen in the late 19th century and with little prospect of recovery. As the people of the Appalachian coalfield look to the future, they do so while bearing that legacy. Here, we describe the condition of Appalachia's resources...
The two most advanced projects funded by the department are the one in West Virginia treating mine drainage and another processing coal dug up by lignite mining in North Dakota. The first could be an important source of a number of critical metals, such as yttrium, ne...
workers in the coal mines usually live a regular and wealthy lifeD. Appalachia provided the American people with most of its coal from 1900 to 193070. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. History of coal mining in Appalachia andits effectsB. Lifestyles and ...
当当网图书频道在线销售正版《【预订】To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition to Surface Coal Mining in Appalachia》,作者:Montrie,出版社:University of North Carolina Press。最新《【预订】To Save the Land and People: A History of Opposition
Surface coal mining has had a dramatic impact on the Appalachian economy and ecology since World War II, exacerbating the region's chronic unemployment and destroying much of its natural environment. Montrie chronicles the twentieth-century movement to outlaw surface mining in Appalachia, tracing popul...
coal mining in the region. The paper also will focuses on singers that wrote protest songs about coal mining, that were featured appeared in the documentary Harlan County, USA. The object for the readers is to gain information about Appalachia music and to appreciate how current music roots ...
Essays in Environmental and Energy Economics The final paper examines the cost of air quality regulations on employment in the coal mining sector in Appalachia. These three papers study different important aspects of the electricity sector, from upstream regulation of generation to ... J Blonz 被引...
Dr. Buchanich and her colleagues matched 31 West Virginia coal mining counties to non-coal mining counties with comparable family incomes that were still within Appalachia. Some of the non-coal mining matches were outside West Virginia.
However,Appalachia also has a darker,decades-long history of poisonous coal-mining such as mountaintop removal and blasting(爆破) that had done almost irreparable damage to local ecology,leaving hundreds bald(光秃秃的) hills throughout eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. ...