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Despite 500 days in office, Biden has yet to appoint a top official to clean up coal mines
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLOUISVILLE, Ky. — Environmentalists and representatives from coal mining communities across the...
The Government Vacancy That Could Cost West Virginians Billions
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 5 months agoStaring down the barrel of a tough reelection fight, the White House still has not selected a...
Congressional Democrats ask for review of environmental threat from ‘zombie’ coal mines
The Hill via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and seven House Democrats asked the Government Accountability Office...
Strip mining worsened the severity of deadly Ky. floods, say former mining regulators.
Lexington Herald-Leader McClatchy Articles via AOL· 2 years agoTwo former state and federal mining regulators say state and federal authorities should investigate...
As coal mines depleted a Navajo Nation aquifer, feds failed to flag losses, report says
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCoal mining depleted areas of a critical aquifer in the Black Mesa region of the Navajo Nation, but a federal agency didn't consider the losses environmentally damaging, researchers concluded ...
Environmental groups say government is not protecting rare KY species from ‘extinction’
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFederal and state regulators are not enforcing rules designed to protect a threatened crayfish in...
Legacy pollution: What is it and how is Maryland fighting it to protect waterways"
Gannett via AOL· 6 months agoMany Mid-Atlantic states, including Maryland, have industries like coal mining in their industrial...
Did coal mining play a role in 2022 Kentucky flood deaths? Group wants feds to investigate
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHalf a year after historic floods killed dozens in Eastern Kentucky, Kentuckians For The...
30 years after a Navajo forest enterprise closed, local leaders want the site cleaned up
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 10 months agoNAVAJO, N.M. — Navajo Forest Products Industries was a booming industry, until it wasn’t. Now what's...
Daines proposes coal land swap, reinstatement of Signal Peak’s mine expansion plan
Daily Montanan via Yahoo News· 3 days agoU.S. Sen. Steve Daines introduced a series of bills during the past two weeks that seek to force the...