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U.S. court rules for groups defending historic site from coal mining

2014-08-26 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in favor of environmental groups fighting to protect the site of a historic 1920s-era labor battle between miners and companies in West Virginia from being destroyed by modern-day coal mining. The Sierra Club and a coalition of local historical associations sued the government for removing the Blair Mountain Battlefield in southern West Virginia from the National Register of Historic Places in 2009, a move the group said would open up the area to large-scale...

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