| In the 1960s, when strip mining had become the major means of coal extraction, ecology began to count for more. |
| Cook backed clean-air standards and limits on strip mining. |
| They're joined by Japanese, Polish, Russian, Korean, and other factory ships in strip mining the offshore stocks off the west coast of this country. |
| There's strip mining by foreign coastal fisheries, ensuring that those coastal communities that rely on those fisheries remain in a spiral of poverty. |
| Mountaintop mining is basically high-altitude strip mining. |
| What strip mining is to nature, the art market has become to culture. |
