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RENEW, STREAM, ACHE acts all aimed at helping with cleanup. Elaine Tanner says reclamation is far behind schedule.

Environmentalists and community representatives from coal country say leadership is needed as coal companies fail to reclaim strip-mined tracts.

Oklahoma has asked a federal judge for an early win in its suit seeking to regulate coal mining on Native American tribal lands, saying the Supreme Court's McGirt decision doesn't give the U.S. Department of the Interior the leverage to take away the state's authority over coal mining.

"The Biden administration is preparing to dole out mine cleanup money to states and tribes under the recent bipartisan infrastructure law, but the president hasn’t appointed anyone to formally oversee the program."

Advocates who supported passage of mine cleanup funding in the bipartisan infrastructure law are concerned that Biden administration priorities for the

More than 800 notices of noncompliance are currently active in the Commonwealth

The $725 million is the first pot of money designated through the bipartisan infrastructure law for abandoned mine reclamation.

Internal records show that state regulators struggle to keep up with the violations as “zombie” mines proliferate.

Internal records and emails show Kentucky regulators struggle to keep up with the violations as coal bankruptcies and “zombie” mines proliferate.

(The Center Square) – Clean up money for abandoned coal mine sites is coming to Illinois. Thanks to the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed by Congress last fall, Illinois stands to receive $1 billi...