EPA to Appeal Spruce No. 1 Court Decision

By AV's Intern Team | June 1, 2012 |

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced in May that it would appeal a court decision that overturned the agency’s veto of the Spruce Mine No. 1 mountaintop removal permit in West Virginia. The mine in question — Arch Coal’s Spruce Mine No. 1 — would span 2,278 acres and be the largest mountaintop removal mine…

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Severance Tax Leaves Kentucky in the Red

By AV's Intern Team | June 8, 2010 |

By Julie Johnson The money that coal, timber, oil and natural gas companies pay in severance taxes is less than the subsidies provided by the state to the same companies, according to a recent study by the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED). MACED examined Kentucky’s 2006 revenue from the coal industry—including severance taxes—and…

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