A new proposed rule aims to rewrite federal law and overturn decades of practice to allow state regulators to protect coal companies over coal communities or mine neighbors.| WORC
The Problem: Insufficient Funds and Lack of Operator Accountability for Reclamation| WORC
This decision, after years of outcry from local residents and litigation, will protect communities, air, water, and the climate from the harms of mining and burning six billion tons of highly polluting coal.| WORC
Above: an “orange cloud,” toxic gasses sometimes created when blasting overburden in coal strip mines, drifts on the breeze, endangering communities downwind.| WORC
