1: What is mountaintop removal?

Removing pieces of mountain to get minerals or coal 2: How does each of the following affect the environment: Clearing: Top soils are removed Blasting: Destroys a whole piece of land and nothing will be able to grow on it Digging: The topsoil is removed Dumping Waste: It contaminates the land Processing: Creates a type of sludge with toxic mountains Reclaimation: takes a long time for the vegetation to grow 3: Where is mountaintop removal happening? It takes place in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, southwest Virginia and East Tennessee 4: What can be done to stop mountaintop removal? Different laws can help it 5: What agencies are involved in regulating mountaintop removal? President's Council on Environmental Quality, EPA, U.S Army Corps of Engineers. 6: What is one reason why we dont need to use this type of process? There are other forms of electricity instead of coal

7: Summarize the economic impacts of mountaintop removal It causes less jobs but increases the coal production. Also it cost more money to power all themachines used to get coal

8: Summarize the ecological impacts of mountaintop removal It pollutes the water and makes it hard for the vegetation that was in that area to grow again 9: How does mountaintop removal affect the local community? Mountaintop removals can cause floods