Mastodon bones found in a coal mine slurry pit 30 miles south of Terre Haute, IN. Kudos to Vectren for doing the RIGHT thing and notifying the Division of Reclamation archaeologist about the find even though there are no paleontology rules governing mining in Indiana.

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"A group promoting reforestation in Appalachia is seeking more than $422 million to plant trees on mountains that were cleared or leveled for surface mining."

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When the Beal Mountain mine opened in 1988 near Butte, Mont., its owner promoted open-pit cyanide leaching for extracting gold from ore as modern and environmentally friendly.

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Joshua David remembers vividly the first time he stepped out onto the rusted-over elevated railway track that snaked above Manhattan.

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Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.

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A fenced-off, long-contaminated chunk of Liberty State Park is about to get a face-lift to become what federal and state officials are calling an urban wildlife refuge.

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"Without oil, at least four billion people would starve. This spiral of trouble would make the oil infrastructure utterly useless" -- unless their bodies could be turned into fuel.

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Behold, the power of nature!

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Reclamation is now the largest water wholesaler in the country, providing municipal and industrial water to more than 31 million people and irrigation water for 10 million acres that produce 60 percent of the nation's vegetables and 25 percent of its nuts and fruits (USBR, 2005).

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