"Giant Shovel on I70"Ohio Strip Mine Fight: 1973 Pop History Dig
Colossal earthmoving machines became symbols in the 1960s1970s environmental battles over surface coal mining, also known as "strip mining." These machines some capable of scooping twotothree Greyhound bussize equivalents of earth with each bite laid waste to tens of thousands of acres as they uncovered nearsurface coal to ...