BOOKS

Missing Mountains
Edited by Kristen Johannsen, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Mary Taylor-Hall. 

Coal:  A Human History
By Barbara Freese

Lost Mountain: Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
By Erik Reece

To Save The Land And People:  A History of Opposition To Surface Coal Mining In Appalachia
By Chad Montrie

FILMS

Black Diamonds:  Mountaintop removal and the fight for coalfield justice
A film by Catherine & Ann Pancake


Appalshop of Whitesburg, Kentucky has produced many extraordinary films about mining and environmental issues in Appalachia throughout the years.  Below is a small sampling.  You can visit there website to find these films and many more. 

Coal Bucket Outlaw
A film by Tom Hansell

On Our Own Land
A film by Anne Lewis

 Sludge
A film by Robert Salyers

The Buffalo Creek Flood:  An Act of Man
A film by Mimi Pickering

To Save The Land and People
A film by Anne Lewis

WEBPAGES

http://www.sludgesafety.org/what_me_worry/coal_slurry_chemicals.html
A link to the toxic analysis of the Martin County Coal Sludge flood of 2000. It is found on Sludge Safety Project’s website. This is a combined effort of Coal River Mountain Watch, OVEC and the Concerned Citizens of Mingo County WV.

http://www.osmre.gov/smcra.htm
The Federal Surface Mine Control and Reclamation Act, this can be found on the Federal Office of Surface Mining Control and reclamation website.

http://www.ohvec.org/issues/mountaintop_removal/articles/2004_08_17.html
Illustration of how Mountaintop removal mining is done.

http://www.epa.gov/region03/mtntop/index.htm
The Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on Mountaintop Removal and Valley Fills done by the EPA, the Federal Office of Surface Mining and a host of other governmental agencies.