Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A coal company once headed by the governor of West Virginia has failed to fully reclaim a surface mine visible from the highest ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture embarked this month on the reclamation of 162 acres of abandoned mine land the Pella Wildlife Area, the largest of about 120 that have taken place in Iowa since the ...

For some citizens interviewed by Le Devoir, the redevelopment of former mining sites goes beyond economics and is about reclaiming the inaccessible. Fenced off and monitored, mining sites must be ...

Land in the Pella Wildlife Area (above) is part of an abandoned coal mine that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is reclaiming. It is the largest reclamation area the department ...

A number of organizations like the Alliance for Appalachia, Earthjustice and Sierra Club, among others, who work in coal communities on issues related to the environment, law and other areas have ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Efforts are ramping up to document and fix abandoned coal mines in our region after a big increase in funding over the past couple of years from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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The Biden administration has committed $22 million to reclaim abandoned coal mines in Southwest Virginia, the New River Valley and Central Virginia. The investment, announced last week, builds on ...

Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy advocates for a scientific mine closure approach focused on job creation and environmental sustainability.