Pine Branch Mining News Today

Powerful industries are increasingly finding their anti-environmental policies and actions scrutinized in the courtroom. Applaud the state and community leaders who are helping build the case against greenwashing.

Chase Hays and more than 50 neighbors are suing Blackhawk Mining after a silt retention pond burst and killed 43 people

Several state attorneys general are engaging in legal battles against President Joe Biden's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a costly regulation.

LOST CREEK, UNITED STATES (AFP) – Chase Hays said he is “torn”. After seeing floods ravage his hamlet in the mountains of eastern Kentucky, he filed a lawsuit against the mine that overlooks it, but the 34-year-old doesn’t want to be seen as an “enemy” of coal. Like him, many in his Appalachian region are […]

JACKSON, Ky. (AP) _ Dozens of eastern Kentucky flood victims have filed a lawsuit that says two coal companies contributed to the damages they suffered.

Residents of a Breathitt County community hard hit by flooding late last month have filed a lawsuit blaming two coal companies for their alleged roles in the catastrophe which claimed

"Floods devastated Eastern Kentucky in July. Now, a community wants to hold Blackhawk Mining accountable for its possible role in the disaster."

Flood victims sue mining company in Kentucky, beloved saguaro cactus falls in Arizona, and more

There are 59 people in the Lost Creek community going up against Blackhawk Mining and its subsidiary, Pine Branch Mining.

Families living below a strip mining operation in Breathitt County, Kentucky are suing two coal companies, arguing that they contributed to flood damage on their homes and properties.