SOURCES
Black lung
Distribution of part C TF black lung claims and disbursements, by state FY 2009.
Proposed rule for phase II of the U.S. government’s attempt to end black lung.
Orange clouds
Associated Press. Orange cloud from mine blast drifts near Gillette. KULR8. Jan. 7, 2008.
Whitney, Eric. Beware of orange clouds. High Country News. May 10, 1999.
Western land
Draft environmental impact statement for the Wright area coal lease applications. June, 2009. (PDF)
U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management. New report details coal resources on federal land in powder river basin. Oct. 20, 2009.
U.S. Departments of Energy, Interior and Agriculture. Inventory of assessed federal coal resources and restrictions to their development. August, 2007. (PDF)
Sulfur toxicity and cattle
Cattle Today. Calf scours.
Lardy, Greg and Charles Stoltenow. Livestock and water. July, 1999.
Wagner, John J. Sulfur toxicity in feedlot cattle. ADM Alliance Nutrition. Colorado State University.
Birth defects
Ahern, Melissa M., Michael Hendryx, Jamison Conley, Evan Fedorko, Alan Ducatman and Keith J. Zullig. The association between mountaintop mining and birth defects among live births in central Appalachia, 1996–2003.
Water
Hitt, Nathaniel P. and Michael Hendryx. Ecological integrity of streams related to human cancer mortality rates. EcoHealth vol. 7, num. 1, 91-104.
Martin, Lawrence J., David L. Naftz, H.W. Lowham, and J.G. Rankl. Cumulative potential hydrologic impacts of surface coal mining in the eastern Powder
River Structural Basin, northeastern Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey. 1988.
Mavis, Jim. Water use in industries of the future: mining industry. CH2M Hill. July, 2003. (PDF)
Stoddard, J.L., A.T. Herlihy, B.H. Hill, R.M. Hughes, P.R. Kaufmann, D.J. Klemm, J.M. Lazorchak, F.H. McCormick, D.V. Peck, S.G. Paulsen, A.R. Olsen, D.P. Larsen, J. Van Sickle, T.R. Whittier. Mid-Atlantic integrated assessment (MAIA): state of the flowing waters report. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Research and Development. February, 2006.
Water lawsuits
Sierra Club. Federal Judge Rules Coal Mine Operators Violating Clean Water and Mining Laws. April 1, 2011.
Mountaintop removal
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Final programmatic environmental impact statement on mountaintop mining/valley fills in Appalachia. 2005.
Palmer, M.A., E.S. Bernhardt, W.H. Schlesinger, K.N. Eshleman, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, M.S. Hendryx, A.D. Lemly, G.E. Likens, O.L. Loucks, M.E. Power,
P.S. White and P.R. Wilcock. Mountaintop mining consequences. Science. Jan. 8, 2010.
