COLUMBUS — The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Mineral Resources Management recently awarded funding to six new projects that will help communities across Ohio impacted by abandoned ...
Historic coal mining communities could lose hundreds of millions of dollars after a U.S. House bill pulls crucial funding for ...
HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Officials say as part of President Donald J. Trump’s America First Energy Agenda, the Department of the Interior announced the availability of nearly $725 million in fiscal ...
Rocks stained by acid mine drainage in Monday Creek, photographed on Aug. 12, 2025. (Photo by Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal.) Stretches of rust orange, acidic water flow through hilly southeastern ...
A bill aimed at averting another government shutdown this month would divert $500 million for states and tribal governments to repair landscapes damaged by coal mining. Pennsylvania, with a ...
Until the passage of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) in 1980, miners across the American West extracted gold, silver, and other valuable “hardrock” ...