Study urges halt to mountaintop mining

In the same report, Carol Raulston, a spokeswoman for the National Mining Association, criticized the study as an “advocacy piece.”

The Environmental Protection Agency approved this week a permit for Patriot Coal Corp.’s mountaintop Hobet 45 mine in West Virginia, over the objections of several environmental groups.

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