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Enforcement or Negotiation presents a study of the development and operations of the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement during its first four years (1978-82), with special emphasis on the issue of regulatory enforcement. It examines the causes and consequences of the agency's change from an enforced compliance style of regulation toward a more discretionary negotiated compliance .The analysis is grounded in a variety of methods, including personal interviews, examination of archival data, and structured questionnaires. A comparative analysis of how the legislation was implemented differently in two regions of the United States demonstrates the crucial importance of local conditions on the implementation of regulatory mandates. The OSM's efforts to balance demands for equity and efficiency are documented, as well as the differences in oppositional strategies employed by large and small mining companies.

STRIP MINING --- MINING LAW --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING --- LAW --- Strip Mining --- Mining Law --- Technology & Engineering --- Law --- Strip mining --- Mining law --- Technology & engineering

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This SME classic is both a reference book for the working engineer and a textbook for the mining student. This hard cover edition gives a brief history of surface mining and a general overview of the state of surface mining today - topics range from production and productivity to technological developments and trends in equipment. This useful text takes the approach that exploration and mining geologists must be expert in a number of fields, including basic finance and economics, logistics, and pragmatic prospecting.

Strip mining. --- Mining engineering. --- Prospecting. --- Mine valuation. --- Mine management.

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Coal is West Virginia's bread and butter. For more than a century, West Virginia has answered the energy call of the nation--and the world--by mining and exporting its coal. In 2004, West Virginia's coal industry provided almost forty thousand jobs directly related to coal, and it contributed 3.5 billion to the state's gross annual product. And in the same year, West Virginia led the nation in coal exports, shipping over 50 million tons of coal to twenty-three countries. Coal has made millionaires of some and paupers of many. For generations of honest, hard-working West Virginians, coal has put food on tables, built homes, and sent students to college. But coal has also maimed, debilitated, and killed. "Bringing Down the Mountains" provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examines the mechanization of the mining industry and the power relationships between coal interests, politicians, and the average citizen. Shirley Stewart Burns holds a BS in news-editorial journalism, a master's degree in social work, and a PhD in history with an Appalachian focus, from West Virginia University. A native of Wyoming County in the southern West Virginia coalfields and the daughter of an underground coal miner, she has a passionate interest in the communities, environment, and histories of the southern West Virginia coalfields. She lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

Coal mines and mining --- Strip mining --- Mountaintop removal mining --- Environmental aspects --- Economic aspects

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Strip mining --- Groundwater --- Groundwater flow. --- Environmental aspects. --- Pollution. --- Flow, Groundwater --- Contamination of groundwater --- Groundwater contamination --- Groundwater pollution --- Hydraulics --- Fluids --- Subsurface drainage --- Pollution --- Environmental protection --- Migration --- Hydrodynamics

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This text charts the people's movement to ban strip mining in Appalachia, tracing popular opposition to the industry from its inception through the growth of a militant movement engaging in acts of sabotage. It highlights the role of farmers and working people in this movement.

Strip mining --- Public opinion --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Open-cast mining --- Open-cut mining --- Open-pit mining --- Surface mining --- Mining engineering --- Environmental aspects --- Public opinion.