{"id":1331,"date":"2009-10-14T13:28:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T18:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/blog\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2009-10-14T13:28:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T18:28:40","slug":"yale-environment-360-and-mediastorm-collaborate-on-leveling-appalachia-the-legacy-of-mountaintop-removal-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/yale-environment-360-and-mediastorm-collaborate-on-leveling-appalachia-the-legacy-of-mountaintop-removal-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale Environment 360 and MediaStorm collaborate on Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/content\/feature.msp?id=2198\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1330\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"Yale360\" src=\"http:\/\/mediastorm.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Yale360-300x281.png\" alt=\"Yale360\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Yale360-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Yale360.png 803w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>During the last two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has destroyed or severely damaged more than a million acres of forest and buried nearly 2,000 miles of streams. <a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/content\/feature.msp?id=2198\" target=\"_blank\">Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining<\/a>, a video report produced by Yale Environment 360 in collaboration with MediaStorm, focuses on the environmental and social impacts of this practice and examines the long-term effects on the region\u2019s forests and waterways.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when the Obama administration is reviewing mining permit applications throughout West Virginia and three other states, <a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/content\/feature.msp?id=2198\" target=\"_blank\">this video<\/a> offers a first-hand look at mountaintop removal and what is at stake for Appalachia\u2019s environment and its people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the last two decades, mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia has destroyed or severely damaged more than a million acres of forest and buried nearly 2,000 miles of streams. Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining, a video report produced by Yale Environment 360 in collaboration with MediaStorm, focuses on the environmental and social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[721,356,726,723,728,293,27,725,722,727,724],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediastorm-commissioned-work","tag-appalachia","tag-climate-change","tag-coal","tag-coal-mining","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-mediastorm","tag-mining","tag-mountaintop-removal","tag-west-virginia","tag-yale-360","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}