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Heavy rain events bring mud, landslides, and anxiety for people who live in flood-prone areas, including those who are next to former coal mines.45 years after federal legislation passed to force coal companies to reclaim the land, numerous sites from before 1977 continue to wreak havoc on the landscape. A law passed in 1977 was supposed to force companies to reclaim land. But much of the damage before the 70s still hasn’t been repaired.
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Virginia is sitting on one of the largest uranium deposits in the country. Plus, the recent interest in an old gold deposit in Buckingham County is reopening old discussions about commercial mining operations in Virginia.
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Virginia is getting a boost of funding to repair sites that were damaged from coal mining before 1977. The state is expected to receive an additional $22.7 million each year for the next 15 years for its Abandoned Mine Lands Program, or AML, as part of a bipartisan infrastructure bill that Congress passed last year.
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The U.S. government sued nearly two dozen of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice's coal companies Tuesday to get them to pay about $4.8 million in unpaid mine…
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A lawsuit that could clear the way for a uranium mine to open in Southside Virginia will likely be argued early next year in Wise County.Walter Coles'…
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For more than 30 years, Virginia has banned mining of uranium. Now, the owner of a large uranium deposit in Pittsylvania County has filed suit, hoping to…
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The decline of coal mining is a blessing to some and a curse to others. And when it comes to what’s known as ‘mountain top removal’ the disagreement runs…
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Even though mountain top removal mining has been on the decline since 2008, the effects on people living in coal mined areas, is not. A new tool tracks…
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A plan for a controversial highway, known as the Coalfields Expressway, will undergo a full environmental impact study by the Virginia Department of…
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For more than a century, coal companies here in Virginia have been transforming wooded hillsides -- strip mining more than a million acres of land in…