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Drowning deaths last summer from flooding in Eastern Kentucky’s coal country linked to poor strip-mine reclamation

A social justice group asks the Interior Department to review the adequacy of federal law as climate change supercharges storms and turns coal hollows into dangerous chutes of water.

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Biden’s been in office for more than 500 days. He still hasn’t appointed a top official to oversee coal mine reclamation

Environmentalists and community representatives from coal country say leadership is desperately needed as coal companies fail to meet their legal obligations for reclaiming strip-mined tracts.

Western states face huge cleanup liabilities from coal mining, new report finds
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Western states face huge cleanup liabilities from coal mining, new report finds

Wyoming has about 83,000 acres of land still unreclaimed by coal companies — by far the most acreage among its Western peers.

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