While the government does not collect statistics on mountaintop mining, data suggest that it may account for about 10 percent of American coal output, yielding 5 percent of the nation's electricity.
Business intelligence is tricky, time-consuming, and historically has required some genius analyst crunching numbers while lay-people for whom datasets and spreadsheets are the devil incarnate wait around for a message from the data mountaintop.
These finds provide bioarchaeological data from mountaintop sites that has been recovered in scientifically controlled excavations in the northwest of Argentina, which was once part of the southern province of the Inca Empire.
These finds provide a robust and valuable amount of bioarchaeological data from Inca mountaintop shrines that has been recovered in scientifically controlled excavations in the northern and western regions of Argentina.
The data suggest that as mountaintop removal permits have been slowed by litigation and EPA regulation, the industry has stepped up production at underground mines -- and employment has gone up as a result.
As a result, military and intelligence agencies continued yesterday to sift for any clues of a collision or other event that might lie hidden in masses of data recorded by spy satellites, mountaintop telescopes that spy on other countries' spy satellites, and a host of other devices pointed at the sky from above and below.
That includes methods other than mountaintop removal mining like contour mining--it is hard to get great data about MTR sites explicitly.
These 5 companies: Massey Energy, International Coal Group, Arch Coal, CONSOL Energy, and TECO Energy were responsible for mountaintop removal mining nearly 38 million tons of coal in 2008 - the most recent year with complete data.
To measure the recent pace of the retreat, researchers relied on data from aerial photographs taken of Kilimanjaro over time and from stakes and instruments installed on the mountaintop in 2000, said Douglas R. Hardy, a geologist at the University of Massachusetts and one of the study's authors.
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