West Virginia has been given more power by the Department of the Interior (DOI) to manage coal mining and reclamation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it ...

Congress approved $11.3 billion to clean up abandoned mine lands in the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, but environmental groups are worried that President Biden hasn’t chosen anyone to oversee how ...

Companies with three or more years of mining and reclamation experience may apply for a chance to bid on the state’s Abandoned Mine Land projects, the Virginia Department of Energy announced this week ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Bureau of Land Management issued a public land order on Friday to protect more than 2,600 acres at the Zortman-Landusky Mine reclamation area. The order will protect the area ...

The stage is set for a final public hearing on annexing 188 acres into Timnath as part of the Ladera development that includes Connell Resources' gravel mining pit. Timnath Town Council on Tuesday ...

At the site of a former coal mine in Jefferson County, Ohio, the Friendship Highwall Reclamation Project eliminated more than 9,000 linear ft of dangerous exposed cliffs and transformed the area into ...

UW graduate student Kurt Fleisher stands on undisturbed land north of Rock Springs that was part of a study showing that new reclamation techniques are more effective in restoring lands disturbed by ...

ASHLAND, Pa. — For Pioneer Tunnel board member Ed Wytovich, decades-old mining pits like this will look to become a thing of the past to educate those in the future. "Well, this is the mammoth pit, ...

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced Oct. 16 the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is beginning construction on eight additional abandoned mine land reclamation projects ...