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Blackjewel’s Bankruptcy Filing Is a Harbinger of Trouble Ahead for the Plummeting Coal Industry The company wants to walk away from almost 200 mining permits in four states, potentially leaving thousands of acres of environmentally damaged land. March 3, 2021 Unemployed Blackjewel coal miner David Pratt holds his daughter Willow as he walks across railroad tracks that lead to one of the companys mines near Cumberland, Kentucky in 2019. Blackjewel miners found themselves unemployed when the co...

After a year of unfamiliar restrictions and guidelines, pandemic fatigue is affecting how some Americans protect their health. However, experts warn that diligence is still extremely important, because new mutations and variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 are being discovered. The typical cold and flu season also brings added threats to people’s health and wellness. “Staying diligent is one of the most important things we can do as we navigate through cold and flu season as wel...

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Scientific American Tribal Coal Fields Will Test Biden’s Environmental Justice Goals A massive coal plant, demolished in December, was a linchpin of the Navajo and Hopi economies for nearly 50 years Advertisement When three 775-foot-tall smoke stacks at the Navajo Generating Station came tumbling down in December, sending plumes of dust into the sky and thundering reverberations off the mesas of the Arizona high desert, it marked the end of an era. The federal government was instrumental in e...

Published: Monday, February 8, 2021 Navajo Generating Station. Photo credit: Jamie & Judy Wild / DanitaDelimont.com "Danita Delimont Photography"/Newscom The Navajo Generating Station in Arizona, one of the countrys biggest emitters, was demolished in December. The plants closure will be a test for the Biden administrations efforts to help fossil fuel workers as it addresses climate change. Jamie & Judy Wild/DanitaDelimont.com "Danita Delimont Photography"/Newscom When three 775-foot-tall smoke...

The 117-million-ton expansion was approved by the Obama administration and would have extended the operating life of the mine for another six and a half years.

Judge orders US officials to weigh coal mines climate costs Matthew Brown Updated:  Tags:  FILE - In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a mechanized shovel loads a haul truck with coal at the Spring Creek coal mine near Decker, Mont. A judge says U.S officials downplayed the climate change impacts and other environmental costs from the expansion of a massive coal mine near the Montana-Wyoming border, in a case that could show how far the Biden administration is willing to go to unwind his predec...

High-voltage electrical lines run from coal-fired generating plants in Colstrip, Montana. (Photo: David Reese) (CN) — A Montana judge on Wednesday ruled that the federal government ignored the health, air pollution and greenhouse-gas consequences of hauling and burning more coal from Montana’s largest coal mine.  In a rebuke of the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, Judge Susan Watters ruled the agency failed to disclose the full impacts of expanding southeastern Montana’s Spring Creek mine,...

Federal judge blocks proposed expansion at MTs largest coal mine Judge nixes Spring Creek coal mine expansion in Montana By: Jay Kohn and last updated 2021-02-05 11:16:32-05 Montanas largest coal mine has hit a major legal setback. Late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Susan Watters of Billings blocked the proposed expansion of the Spring Creek Coal Mine located near Decker in southeastern Montana. Watters ruled that in granting the new permit, the U.S. Office of Surface Mining i...

Grant will support economic development, renewable energy, mine reclamation in Southwest Virginia Published Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, 6:02 pm Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Front Page » Government/Politics » Politics2 » Grant will support economic development, renewable energy, mine reclamation in Southwest Virginia (© niroworld – stock.adob...