A study released Monday by researchers at Duke University will add fuel to the fire of groups opposed to mountaintop mining in the Appalachian region of the United States. The study, which appears in the Early Edition of the Procedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes that mountaintop mining removal – where the ridge of a mountain is removed to access coal seams – degrades water quality in the affected watershed over a period of time: Our results demonstrate the cumulative impact of multiple mines within a single catchment and provide evidence that mines reclaimed nearly two decades ago continue to contribute significantly to water quality degradation within this watershed.
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