(The Center Square) – The federal government’s Abandoned Mine Land Fee is set to expire in September, and the National Mining Association contends $12 billion already paid into the fund
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Environmental News For The Week Ending 23May 2019
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Covid totals continue to fall, both in the US and worldwide. New US cases during the week ending May 22nd were down 22.0% from those testing positive during the week ending May 15th, and down 64.2% from our mid-April surge high; this week s new cases were also the lowest for a 7 day period since that ending June 19th of last year. US deaths attributed to Covid this week were down 7.1% from the prior week, and less than a sixth of the death rate during the peak weeks of January. US Covid deaths were also the lowest since t
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Tennessee has more than 14,000 acres of abandoned coal fields, but the cost of remediation such as replanting trees and improving water quality far outweigh the federal funding available to the state, a new report shows.
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The report by the Ohio River Valley Institute, a think tank dedicated to examining Appalachia, concluded that the total cost of reclaiming old coal mines across the country is $26 billion. The federal government s budget: $11 billion.
The vast majority of the nation s abandoned coal mines lie in the seven Appalachia states of Alabama, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
The former coal mines can cause a host of environmental problems, including water pollution and acid mine drainage, and present physical dangers to people in nearby communities from rockslides and flooding.