by Andrew Chandler | Apr 4, 2018 |
Obama-era efforts to stamp out the practice of US coal mining companies insuring their own clean-up costs have been widely successful, a Climate Home News investigation has found. But those wins are threatened by regulatory rollbacks under president Donald Trump. Data...
by Andrew Chandler | Apr 4, 2018 |
Nearly three million acres of US land – an area the size of the state of Connecticut – lies under some form of coal mining permit. Much of this is cratered with giant pits or burrowed under by long mining tunnels. But what happens when these mines shut down? On...
