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Environmentalists and representatives from coal mining communities across the nation on Tuesday pressed the Biden administration to finally appoint someone to head the Interior Department’s Office of ...

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This Oct. 17, 2014 file photo made from Black Mountain in Lynch, Ky., shows an unreclaimed strip mine in Virginia, just across the state line from Kentucky's Harlan County. For environmental and ...

Judge Sparkle Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday sided with the environmentalists ...

Work to reclaim more than 40 acres of former mining land in Richland Township is nearing its midpoint, according to the ...

Arkansas has been allocated a third installment of $1.7 million in federal funding to go toward the cleanup of pollution from abandoned coal mines in the state. The funding, announced last week by the ...

The bills would amend federal law to accelerate the cleanup of "zombie mines." Industry advocates say the language misses the ...

Arkansas has received a more than $1.7 million boost to its annual grant for reclaiming abandoned coal mines, federal officials announced Tuesday. The additional funding from the Infrastructure ...