NYT: The war over mountaintop removal mining is opening up on several new fronts — including, as I note in an article in The New York Times on Tuesday, among several big banks. Several lenders, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargohave developed internal lending policies that limit or eliminate their relationships with mining outfits that engage in mountaintop removal mining, which is precisely as it sounds: mining companies simply blast off mountaintops to quickly …