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	Office of Surface Mining: Surface Mining Law - http://www.osmre.gov/smcra.htm Legislation designed to protect society and the environment from the adverse effects of surface coal mining operations.
	Wikipedia: Mountaintop Removal Mining - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal Discusses process, economics, legislation and criticism. Includes references.
	Mines and Communities - http://www.minesandcommunities.org/ Empowering activists and communities opposed to mining through information on global mining trends, specific projects and mining industry attempts to subvert legitimate protest. Includes news.
	The Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) - http://www.responsiblemining.net/ Seeks to develop and establish a voluntary system to independently verify compliance with environmental, human rights and social standards for mining operations. Includes documents and updates.
	The Roanoke Times: Moving the Mountains: An Exploration of Mountaintop Removal Mining - http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/mountaintop/wb/xp-index Series of informational articles. Includes interactive graphics, videos, image gallery and a message board.

	Oxfam Community Aid Abroad: The Mining Campaign - http://www.caa.org.au/campaigns/mining/index.html Monitoring Australian mining companies' impact on the environment and vulnerable communities.
	United Mountain Defense - http://www.unitedmountaindefense.org/ Information about mountaintop removal coal mining, its impacts, and how to fight it in Tennessee. Includes photos and notices about public events.
	Washington Post: Appalachia Is Paying Price for White House Rule Change - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6462-2004Aug16.html Article discusses the environmental and human impacts being felt in Appalachia. Includes photographs. By Joby Warrick.
	The Mining News - http://www.theminingnews.org/ Searchable archive of excerpts of news articles from diverse perspectives. Includes publications.
	Unsustainable Resource Use - http://speakingoutworld.com/ Extensive photographs of overflights of mountaintop removal mining sites. Includes highlights of the tour and testimonials of people living in the affected region.

	Orion Magazine: Moving Mountains - http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/166/ Discusses the battle for justice that has come to the coal fields of Appalachia. By Eric Reese.
	Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities - http://kitkat.wvu.edu:8080/files/4047/Stewart_Burns_Shirley_dissertation.pdf Study examines the environmental, social, economic, political and community impacts. Includes references.
	Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Impact Witnessed In Appalachian Kentucky « World Thinking - http://dwbritton.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/mountain-top-removal-coal-mining-impact-witnessed-in-appalachian-kentucky/ Article shares remarks from people living in affected regions.
	Religion & Ethics News Weekly: Mountaintop Removal Mining - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week1023/cover.html Bob Abernethy interviews religious critics who say the price, in human terms, of mountaintop removal mining is too high. Includes the video report.
	West Virginia Mountaintop Removal - http://members.tripod.com/~earthsaver77/ Information about mountain top mining and valley fill, and the environmental damage this practice is causing around the state and in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina.

	The Effect of Current Mining Practices on the Welfare of Women and Children - http://www.geocities.com/cspslibrary/esi.html Article discusses health effects, environmental hazards, poisoning from chemicals and social effects. Includes recommendations for policy guidelines. By E.K. Agyapong, University of Ghana, Legon.
	Mining Law Reform: This is Hard Rock Mining - http://www.mining-law-reform.info Documentation of history and current events of 1872 mining law reform actions in U.S. Congress along with data on problems with mining and causes for delays in reform.
	National Geographic: Mining the Summits: When Mountains Move - http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0603/feature5/index.html Examines how the quest for Appalachian coal has led to mountaintop removal. By John G. Mitchell.
	Christian Science Monitor: In Coal Country, Heat Rises Over Latest Method of Mining - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0103/p02s01-ussc.html Article discusses long-term effects of mountaintop removal mining. By Amanda Paulson.
	Judge Takes on the White House on Mountaintop Mining - http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/national/19STRI.html NY Times article abstract outlines the issues surrounding this mining practice in the central Appalachians.

	Mining the Mountains - http://wvgazette.com/static/series/mining/ Archive of Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette articles on mountaintop removal, accompanied by text of US court rulings and a draft version of the never-published environmental impact statement on the practice.
	Defenders of Appalachia: The Campaign to Eliminate Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and the Role of Public Justice - http://www.lclark.edu/org/envtl/objects/37-3_Pantilat.pdf Case study examines the legal strategies and techniques used in a series of environmental lawsuits. Includes litigation history.
	U.S. Department of The Interior Office of Surface Mining: An Evaluation of Approximate Original Contour and Postmining Land Use in West Virginia - http://www.osmre.gov/mountaintop.htm Report examines whether the WVDEP uses appropriate standards in evaluating whether a particular postmining land configuration constitutes a return to AOC, and if waivers have been issued, have they required appropriate postmining land uses in granting the waiver.

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