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It seems like TV networks have been talking about remaking the western for longer than they actually made them. Maybe the genre, which dominated TV drama in the '50s and '60s, is just too much of its time to thrive in a more gray-hatted era. HBO aired three seasons...
Givens' bags are barely unpacked when he has a run-in with Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), an old coal-mining buddy who has become a white supremacist and bank robber. (The pilot is based on a Leonard story, "Fire in the Hole," and Givens' old entanglements at home are a...
Public-health studies suggest that people who live in mountaintop mining areas have "higher rates of lung cancer, chronic lung, heart and kidney disease mortality [and] lower birth rates" than average, possibly caused by breathing in coal dust or absorbing harmful chemicals, says Dr. Michael Hendryx, a professor of community...
Overall, the environmental impact of mountaintop mining is so traumatic, says Palmer, that she and a team of engineers, ecologists and hydrologists recommended an end to the practice in a paper published in January in the journal Science. They dismiss federal and state laws, including the Surface Mining Control and...
Although other types of surface or underground mining are less environmentally destructive than mountaintop mining, they're also more expensive, so companies like Massey are reluctant to alter current practices. Going forward, however, Massey has pledged to monitor water quality; periodically it assembles a 30-member environmental review arm to...