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- verb Present participle of
strip-mine .
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Examples
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In the 1970s I was quite fortunate to stumble into Antioch/Appalachia, where I met fellow poets dealing with the issues of stereotyping and strip-mining.
Jeff Biggers: Taking on Big Coal Governors: West Virginia Mountain Party Candidate Inspires the Nation Jeff Biggers 2011
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It's good that strip-mining, tar sands, hydro-fracking, oil spilling -- this flood of nightmares is scaring us silly.
Reverend Billy: Oil Spills and Real Change Reverend Billy 2010
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Fed up with the regulatory crisis and circumventions by outside coal companies, coalfield residents have been rising up against reckless strip-mining practices against the country, from Alaska to Alabama to Arizona.
Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal (PHOTOS) Jeff Biggers 2010
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In 1977, after a huge flood aggravated by strip-mining and clear-cutting, I co-edited a small anthology called Mucked that collected regional writers concerned with environmental issues.
Jeff Biggers: Taking on Big Coal Governors: West Virginia Mountain Party Candidate Inspires the Nation Jeff Biggers 2011
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Meanwhile, protesters led by the legendary Rev. Billy Talen staged a nearby sit-in at the office of the PNC bank, which remains one of the last major financiers of coal companies engaged in this extreme form of strip-mining in Appalachia.
Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal (PHOTOS) Jeff Biggers 2010
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Meanwhile, protesters led by the legendary Rev. Billy Talen staged a nearby sit-in at the office of the PNC bank, which remains one of the last major financiers of coal companies engaged in this extreme form of strip-mining in Appalachia.
Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal (PHOTOS) Jeff Biggers 2010
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Fed up with the regulatory crisis and circumventions by outside coal companies, coalfield residents have been rising up against reckless strip-mining practices against the country, from Alaska to Alabama to Arizona.
Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal (PHOTOS) Jeff Biggers 2010
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Meanwhile, protesters led by the legendary Rev. Billy Talen staged a nearby sit-in at the office of the PNC bank, which remains one of the last major financiers of coal companies engaged in this extreme form of strip-mining in Appalachia.
Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal (PHOTOS) Jeff Biggers 2010
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Fed up with the regulatory crisis and circumventions by outside coal companies, coalfield residents have been rising up against reckless strip-mining practices against the country, from Alaska to Alabama to Arizona.
Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal (PHOTOS) Jeff Biggers 2010
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Amid mind-boggling strip-mining destruction in Wise County, Virginia, Dominion Resources is building a new coal-fired plant as a monument to yesterday.
Jeff Biggers: Mother Jones Is Still Calling Out Deadbeat Coal Barons (on Coal Miner's Day) Jeff Biggers 2010
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