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The leader of the country's largest Indian reservation threw his support behind the neighboring Hopi Tribe, whose lawmakers declared environmental groups unwelcome on the reservation. Navajo President Joe Shirley Jr. and Hopi lawmakers say environmentalists' efforts could hurt the tribes' struggling economies by slowing or stopping coal mining. Shirley said Wednesday that he will stand in solidarity with the Hopi Tribe, and joined Hopi lawmakers in encouraging other tribes to re-evaluate their relationships with environmentalists.

A group of eco terrorists last week invaded a coal mining operation in our county and caused a load of trouble.

China makes first 2,210-kw coal mining machine www.chinaview.cn 2008-12-14 00:06:27 Print The first China-made 2,210 kilowatt coal mining machine passed check and appraisal on Saturday in the northwestern Shaanxi Province, reducing the reliance on exports. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>> XI'AN, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- The first China-made 2,210 kilowatt coal mining machine passed check and appraisal on Saturday in the northwestern Shaanxi Province, reducing the reliance on exports. Trial operation showed the remote control machine, produced by Xi'an Coal Mining Machine Co. Ltd, can mine eight million tons of coal annually, according to the Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Department....

Measure passed in U.S. House aims to protect environment. A measure that would amend the General Mining Law of 1872 to establish environmental protections and eliminate land patenting passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday. Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo, voted with the 244-166 majority and hailed the legislation for its environmental protections and reclamation requirements on hard-rock mining. “I have heard from constituents in Crested Butte, the Summitville area, and throughout Colorado who want to protect our precious water resources,” said Salazar, whose 3rd Congressional District includes most of the Western Slope. “After 135 years, I am glad the...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 — The Bush administration is set to issue a regulation on Friday that would enshrine the coal mining practice of mountaintop removal. The technique involves blasting off the tops of mountains and dumping the rubble into valleys and streams. It has been used in Appalachian coal country for 20 years under a cloud of legal and regulatory confusion. The new rule would allow the practice to continue and expand, providing only that mine operators minimize the debris and cause the least environmental harm, although

RiskWorld Home Page Radiation Risk and Ethics by Zbigniew Jaworowski* (Reprinted with permission from Physics Today, 52(9), September 1999, pp. 24-29, American Institute of Physics.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The established worldwide practice of protecting people from radiation costs hundreds of billions of dollars a year to implement and may well determine the world's future energy system. But is it right? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The psychosomatic disorders observed in the 15 million people in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia1 who were affected by the April 1986 Chernobyl accident are probably the accident’s most important effect on public health.2 These disorders could not be attributed to the...

"In the sweet bye and bye, we shall meet on that beautiful shore." I last heard that old hymn at my father's funeral and thought I had made my peace at last with the specter of death that had haunted my childhood. I thought so until Monday, Jan. 3, when a coal mine exploded in West Virginia, and in my heart. Suddenly, I was 8 years old, a third-grader in the six-room schoolhouse

John Kerry's enthusiasms for job-destroying environmental regulations could cost him the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia where coal mining is a major industry. Already Kerry is attempting to reposition himself on these issues. Kerry now claims that he disagrees with Al Gore's anti-coal mining policies such as his support of the Kyoto Treaty, which would have devastated both the industry and the U.S. economy. Though kerry's voting record and public pronouncements placed him solidy in the Gore camp, Kerry has sought to portray himself as a friend and supporter of coal miners, pledging to protect their jobs...

Eleven Russian miners, trapped for nearly a week after a giant underground lake burst into their shaft in southern Russia, have been found alive and brought to the surface, local officials said Wednesday. Reuters Photo But a twelfth miner was dead and another was still missing in the coal mine. A Reuters reporter saw 11 exhausted miners, their faces pitch black and hair covered in grime, emerge from the shaft man after man -- some wrapped in blankets, some on stretchers, and some smiling broadly and squinting in weak sunlight. Some walked unaided and cheerfully waved hands as relatives cried...

<p>SHAKHTY, Russia (CNN) -- Rescuers are racing against time to free dozens of miners trapped underground in a flooded mine in southern Russia's Rostov region.</p> <p>Officials from Russia's Emergency Ministry in Rostov-on-the-Don -- the regional capital -- said the Zapadnaya mine began filling with water Thursday evening, shorting out the mine's electrical system and making the elevator to the surface inoperable.</p>