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The Biden-Harris administration has submitted to Congress the President’s budget for fiscal year 2022, which features US$165 million to address coal mine reclamation and economic development efforts.

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The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation will take back regulation and permitting of coal mining from the federal government.

Environmental News For The Week Ending 23May 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: Covid totals continue to fall, bo...

Legal Enviros sue feds over W. Va insolvent mine reclamation program Sebastien Malo 4 minute read Steam rises from a pile of coal at a mine in Bishop, West Virginia, U.S., May 19, 2018. REUTERS/Brian Snyder Environmental groups sued the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement (OSMRE) in Huntington, West Virginia federal court for failing to determine whether the state should overhaul its surface mines reclamation program in light of the insolvency of various in-state coal mines...

May 19, 2021 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. Subscribe 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 governments budget: $11 billion. The vast majo...

The Sierra Club and two local environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, alleging that the Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) has been derelict in handling mine

In January 1848, six Mormon men bunked together in a small wood cabin along the South Fork of the American River in Cullumah, as the Nisenan named the land where they had lived for thousands of years, meaning “beautiful valley.” The men, part of the U.S. Army Mormon Battalion, had traveled from Iowa to San Diego to fight in the Mexican-American War, which, fortuitously or not, was close to an end upon their arrival. The war allowed the victorious United States to acquire m...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Regulated parties who comply with their permit sometimes get an unwelcome surprise. They meet with their state agency, make full disclosure about their discharges or emissions, and then the state agency makes decisions about how to regulate the discharges or emissions, including what type of permit to issue. Sometimes the state agency gets it wrong, and then citizen groups sue. In that instance, one in which the regulated party relied...

The White House White House Releases Initial Report Detailing Existing Resources for Energy Communities Department of Energy Announces $109.5 Million to Support Energy Jobs, Executive Director to Spearhead Interagency Efforts Today, theWhite House Interagency Working Group on Coal and Power Plant Communities and Economic Revitalization released a report that was delivered to President Biden and included the initial recommendations from the Interagency Working Group to catalyze economic revital...