Barclays ends financing of controversial mountaintop removal mining

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Bank was biggest financier of MTR in 2013 but now expects method used to extract coal in Appalachian mountains will soon be phased out

Barclays has ended its financing of a controversial coal mining method known as mountaintop removal and said time is running out for the practice. The bank was the world's biggest financier of mountain...

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