Strip miners have destroyed at least 16,000...

Strip miners have destroyed at least 16,000 historic or archeological sites over the last four years because the Interior Department has not enforced a law protecting the sites, NBC News reported. The department’s Office of Surface Mining has refused to comply with the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, which would have protected the 10,000 historic and 6,000 archeological sites, NBC said. J. Rodney Little, president of the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers, told NBC that the sites range from “significant frontier log cabins to 18th-Century historic houses.”