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This mine is now but a tomb marked with a now rusty ribbon of an abandoned railroad line. Numerous reclamation projects to protect the overlying community from mine subsidence related issues have been performed by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality's Abandoned Mine Land Division since the 1980s.
The Land Quality Division enforces the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977's obligation on mining companies to guaranty they can pay the costs of mine reclamation. Wyoming does not require large mining companies to post a surety bond. Instead, these companies can hold their own assets as "self-bonding". [34]
SMCRA created two programs: one for regulating active coal mines and a second for reclaiming abandoned mine lands. SMCRA also created the Office of Surface Mining, an agency within the Department of the Interior, to promulgate regulations, to fund state regulatory and reclamation efforts, and to ensure consistency among state regulatory ...
Jason Willis, the director of the group's Western Abandoned Mine Lands Program, told Colorado Public Radio that liability rules prevented them from finishing the job. "We were able to do 90 ...
President Joe Biden issued an order on Monday forcing a Chinese-backed cryptocurrency mining company to sell land near a Wyoming nuclear missile base, citing national security concerns.. The ...
Aug. 11—ASHLAND — The Kentucky Division of Abandoned Mine Lands leads the effort to prevent hazards from abandoned coal mines to promote public health, safety and the environment across the ...
The precise number of abandoned mines in the United States remains unknown, ranging "from the National Park Service's tally of 2,500 on its lands to the Mineral Policy Center's assessment of 560,000 abandoned mines on public and privately owned lands." [7] Many of these abandoned mines are associated with abandoned neighboring towns often ...
A drilling pad for oil and gas in Robinson Township, Penn. Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images CC BY-ND President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan proposes to spend US$16 billion plugging old oil and ...