Sierra Club and Others Sue Biden Administration Over West Virginia’s Grossly Underfunded Mine Reclamation Program. sc.org/3onoNyK (1 of 5)
Decades of industry-friendly oversight has set the stage for a reclamation crisis. Hopefully, under the Biden administration, OSMRE will be up to the challenge of requiring adequate and reliable reclamation funding not just in West Virginia but around the country. (2 of 5)
"For the last 9 years, we’ve looked out our windows onto a strip mine where neighboring farms used to be," said Betsy Lawson, a resident of western Monongalia County. (3 of 5)
"In 2014 the mining company declared bankruptcy and vanished because the bond money was less than 1/10 of what was needed to reclaim the land. We are left with badly built sediment ponds that make our streams run red with iron and white with aluminum." (4 of 5)
"Too many coal companies have benefited at the expense of the people and the land. These sites must be cleaned up if there is to be a future for the people and wildlife who still call this state home." sc.org/3onoNyK (5 of 5)
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