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The department will use the funding to reclaim abandoned coal mine sites to protect public safety and the environment.

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources will receive more than $5.8 million in new federal funding to reclaim abandoned coal mine sites across the state. Allocated through the Bipartisan Infrastructure

By majority decision in Naturaland Trust v. Dakota Finance, LLC, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit struck a blow against one of the affirmative defenses a...

The administration today announced $2.3 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to catalyze economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned mine lands in Alaska and Texas.

The Domestic Energy and Jobs Act would provide America with much needed energy supply and a much needed economic stimulus.

The Kayenta Mine Complex on tribal lands in northeastern Arizona once supplied the coal that lit up homes in Los Angeles and pumped water to Phoenix. The mine closed in 2019, and now Navajo and Hopi people want the land returned so they can use it to graze livestock and gather culturally important plants. Mine reclamation is well underway, but the process is slow, and some worry it’s taking too long. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports.

The one question paramount in the case is whether the mining in question takes place on Indian land.

The administration today announced $109.48 million to catalyze economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned mine lands in Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and New Mexico.

In a quiet commercial strip in an upscale suburb of Nashville, there's a single-story brick building housing a company that may determine whether another

Secretary Haaland traveled to Kentucky today to announce a $74,252,680 investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to catalyze economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned mine lands.