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96 relations: Al Gore, Al Jazeera America, Ann Pancake, Annie Sprinkle, Appalachia, Appalachian Mountains, Autoethnography, Back to Forever, Battle of Blair Mountain, Biodiversity, Bobbie Ann Mason, Burning the Future: Coal in America, Caroline Herring, Catherine Pancake, Center for Biological Diversity, Clean Air Act (United States), Clean Water Act, Coal, Coal mining, Congressional Research Service, Deforestation, Democracy Now!, Documentary film, Elk, Endemism, Environmental impact of the coal industry, Environmental impact statement, Environmental issue, Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia, Environmental movement, Environmentalism, Excavator, Explosive material, Fossil fuel phase-out, Fossil fuel power station, Freedom (Franzen novel), Goldman Environmental Prize, Gray Mountain (Grisham novel), Introduced species, Jean Ritchie, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, Julia Bonds, Kentucky, Land rehabilitation, Larry Gibson, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Lespedeza cuneata, LGBT social movements, Liam Wilson, ..., Lissie, Local community, Lumber, Maria Gunnoe, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Massey Energy, Michael J. Hicks, Mining, Mount Fubilan, Mountaintop Removal (film), Moving Mountains (book), Museum of Modern Art, Nashville Film Festival, Natural environment, North Carolina, Overburden, Pare Lorentz, Performance art, Presidency of George W. Bush, Pricey Harrison, Queer, Reforestation, Riparian buffer, River source, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Science (journal), Silas House, Stratum, Subsoil, Summit, Surface mining, Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Last Mountain, The New York Times, Tonne, Topsoil, United States Army Corps of Engineers, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Vice (magazine), Wall Street, Wendell Berry, West Virginia, 1973 oil crisis, 1979 energy crisis. Expand index (46 more) »
Al Gore
Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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Al Jazeera America
Al Jazeera America (AJAM) was an American basic cable and satellite news television channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network.
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Ann Pancake
Ann Pancake is an American fiction writer and essayist.
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Annie Sprinkle
Annie M. Sprinkle (born Ellen F. Steinberg on July 23, 1954) is an American sex educator, former sex worker, Also available as: feminist stripper, pornographic actress, cable television host, porn magazine editor, writer, sex film producer, and sex-positive feminist.
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Appalachia
Appalachia is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.
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Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains (les Appalaches), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America.
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Autoethnography
Autoethnography, is a form of qualitative research in which an author uses self-reflection and writing to explore their personal experience and connect this autobiographical story to wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings.
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Back to Forever
Back to Forever is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Lissie.
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Battle of Blair Mountain
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history and one of the largest, best-organized, and most well-armed uprisings since the American Civil War.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity, a portmanteau of biological (life) and diversity, generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Bobbie Ann Mason
Bobbie Ann Mason (born May 1, 1940) is a Southern United States novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic from Kentucky.
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Burning the Future: Coal in America
Burning the Future: Coal in America is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by David Novack.
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Caroline Herring
Caroline Herring is an American folk and country singer, songwriter and musician.
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Catherine Pancake
Catherine Pancake is an American filmmaker and musician.
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Center for Biological Diversity
The Center for Biological Diversity (Center), based in Tucson, Arizona, is a nonprofit membership organization with approximately 1.1 million members and online activists, known for its work protecting endangered species through legal action, scientific petitions, creative media and grassroots activism.
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Clean Air Act (United States)
The Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.) is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.
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Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.
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Congressional Research Service
The Congressional Research Service (CRS), known as Congress's think tank, is a public policy research arm of the United States Congress.
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Deforestation
Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.
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Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! is an hour-long American TV, radio and internet news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González.
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Documentary film
A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.
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Elk
The elk or wapiti (Cervus canadensis) is one of the largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, in the world, and one of the largest land mammals in North America and Eastern Asia.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Environmental impact of the coal industry
The environmental impact of the coal industry includes issues such as land use, waste management, water and air pollution, caused by the coal mining, processing and the use of its products.
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Environmental impact statement
An environmental impact statement (EIS), under United States environmental law, is a document required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for certain actions "significantly affecting the quality of the human environment".
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Environmental issue
Environmental issues are harmful effects of human activity on the biophysical environment.
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Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia
Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia is the study of environmental justice – the interdisciplinary body of social science literature studying theories of the environment and justice; environmental laws, policies, and their implementations and enforcement; development and sustainability; and political ecology – in relation to Coal mining in Appalachia.
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Environmental movement
The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.
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Environmentalism
Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.
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Excavator
Excavators (hydraulic) are heavy construction equipment consisting of a boom, dipper (or stick), bucket and cab on a rotating platform known as the "house".
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Explosive material
An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.
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Fossil fuel phase-out
Fossil fuel phase out refers to the discontinuation of the use of fossil fuels, through the decommissioning of operating fossil fuel-fired power plants, the prevention of the construction of new ones, and the use of alternative energy to replace the role of fossil fuels.
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Fossil fuel power station
A fossil fuel power station is a power station which burns a fossil fuel such as coal, natural gas, or petroleum to produce electricity.
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Freedom (Franzen novel)
Freedom is a 2010 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen.
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Goldman Environmental Prize
The Goldman Environmental Prize is a prize awarded annually to grassroots environmental activists, one from each of the world's six geographic regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America.
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Gray Mountain (Grisham novel)
Gray Mountain is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham, published in hardcover on October 23, 2014.
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Introduced species
An introduced species (alien species, exotic species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species) is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.
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Jean Ritchie
Jean Ritchie (December 8, 1922 – June 1, 2015) was an American folk music singer, songwriter, and Appalachian dulcimer player.
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John Grisham
John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8, 1955).
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Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist.
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Julia Bonds
Julia "Judy" Bonds (August 27, 1952 – January 3, 2011) was an organizer and activist from the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, United States.
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Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.
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Land rehabilitation
Land rehabilitation is the process of returning the land in a given area to some degree of its former state, after some process (industry, natural disasters, etc.) has resulted in its damage.
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Larry Gibson
Larry Gibson (1946 – September 9, 2012) was a renowned anti-mining environmentalist from West Virginia, who spent the majority of his adult life opposing mountaintop coal mining in the area, specifically at Kayford Mountain.
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Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009.
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Lespedeza cuneata
Lespedeza cuneata is a species of flowering plant in the legume family known by the common names Chinese bushclover and sericea lespedeza, or just sericea.
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LGBT social movements
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social movements are social movements that advocate for LGBT+ people in society.
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Liam Wilson
Liam Wilson (born on December 22, 1979) has been the bass player for the band The Dillinger Escape Plan since the autumn of 2000 and is a former bass player of the bands Starkweather and For Life.
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Lissie
Elisabeth Corrin Maurus (born November 21, 1982), known as Lissie, is an American singer-songwriter.
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Local community
A local community is a group of interacting people sharing an environment.
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Lumber
Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.
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Maria Gunnoe
Maria Gunnoe (born 1968) is an environmentalist who opposes mountaintop removal mining, and is a winner of the Goldman Prize and Wallenberg Medal.
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Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
Mary Ann Taylor-Hall is an American fiction writer and poet.
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Massey Energy
Massey Energy Company was a coal extractor in the United States with substantial operations in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia.
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Michael J. Hicks
Michael J. Hicks (born in 1962) is the George & Frances Ball Distinguished Professor of Economics and director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and Professor of Economics at Ball State University.
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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.
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Mount Fubilan
Mount Fubilan was a mountain in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
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Mountaintop Removal (film)
Mountaintop Removal is a 2007 documentary film directed by Michael O'Connell.
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Moving Mountains (book)
Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice From Big Coal is a 2007 book published by the University Press of Kentucky.
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Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
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Nashville Film Festival
The Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm), held annually in Nashville, Tennessee, is the oldest running film festival in the South and one of the oldest in the United States.
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Natural environment
The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Overburden
In mining, overburden (also called waste or spoil) is the material that lies above an area that lends itself to economical exploitation, such as the rock, soil, and ecosystem that lies above a coal seam or ore body.
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Pare Lorentz
Pare Lorentz (December 11, 1905 – March 4, 1992) was an American filmmaker known for his movies about the New Deal.
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Performance art
Performance art is a performance presented to an audience within a fine art context, traditionally interdisciplinary.
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Presidency of George W. Bush
The presidency of George W. Bush began at noon EST on January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush was inaugurated as 43rd President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2009.
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Pricey Harrison
Mary Price "Pricey" Harrison (born August 31, 1958) is a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing the 57th district since 2005.
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Queer
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities who are not heterosexual or cisgender.
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Reforestation
Reforestation is the natural or intentional restocking of existing forests and woodlands (forestation) that have been depleted, usually through deforestation.
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Riparian buffer
A riparian buffer or stream buffer is a vegetated area (a "buffer strip") near a stream, usually forested, which helps shade and partially protect the stream from the impact of adjacent land uses.
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River source
The source or headwaters of a river or stream is the furthest place in that river or stream from its estuary or confluence with another river, as measured along the course of the river.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (born January 17, 1954) is an American environmental attorney, author, and activist.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Silas House
Silas Dwane House (born August 7, 1971) is an American writer best known for his novels.
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Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (plural: strata) is a layer of sedimentary rock or soil, or igneous rock that were formed at the Earth's surface, with internally consistent characteristics that distinguish it from other layers.
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Subsoil
Subsoil is the layer of soil under the topsoil on the surface of the ground.
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Summit
A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it.
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Surface mining
Surface mining, including strip mining, open-pit mining and mountaintop removal mining, is a broad category of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit (the overburden) are removed, in contrast to underground mining, in which the overlying rock is left in place, and the mineral is removed through shafts or tunnels.
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Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA) is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Dillinger Escape Plan was an American metalcore band formed in Morris Plains, New Jersey, in 1997.
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The Last Mountain
The Last Mountain is a feature-length documentary film directed by Bill Haney and produced by Haney, Clara Bingham and Eric Grunebaum.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Tonne
The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.
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Topsoil
Topsoil is the upper, outermost layer of soil, usually the top to.
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United States Army Corps of Engineers
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is a U.S. federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command made up of some 37,000 civilian and military personnel, making it one of the world's largest public engineering, design, and construction management agencies.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.
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United States Fish and Wildlife Service
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is an agency of the federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.
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Vice (magazine)
Vice is a Canadian-American print magazine focused on arts, culture, and news topics.
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Wall Street
Wall Street is an eight-block-long street running roughly northwest to southeast from Broadway to South Street, at the East River, in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
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Wendell Berry
Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer.
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West Virginia
West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States.
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1973 oil crisis
The 1973 oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries proclaimed an oil embargo.
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1979 energy crisis
The 1979 (or second) oil crisis or oil shock occurred in the world due to decreased oil output in the wake of the Iranian Revolution.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountaintop_removal_mining
