Raleigh County-based Coal River Mountain Watch has urged the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to step in to address Lexington Coal Company s ballooning delinquent state environmental penalty debt. The group says the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has failed to effectively enforce Lexington compliance.
"Meta and Google’s moves to block news in Canada undermine democracy." Scrappy Canadian investigative startup The Narwhal finds tech giants blocking news sites because of the Online News Act.
A federal agency said this week that more than $9.9 million in fiscal year 2022 funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will go toward reclaiming abandoned mine lands in Colorado,