When retired coal miner Phillip Johnson bought a small building several years ago, he had someone he knew with a bulldozer haul it to a secluded hollow in the steep mountains above where he’d grown up ...

Work is about to begin to reclaim nearly 90 acres of mine-scarred land above the Casey Highway, clearing the way for 1.4 million square feet of warehouses in Archbald and Mayfield. Mayfield signed a ...

DENVER – Despite cries for a focus on reclamation following the Gold King Mine spill, restoring thousands of inactive mines across Colorado and the nation may prove difficult, if not logistically ...

SWOYERSVILLE — State Sen. John Yudichak believes the Harry E mine reclamation project is a good illustration of how coal refuse companies are helping communities such as Swoyersville address the ...

PELLA, Iowa — Iowa officials are continuing a massive mine reclamation project in the central part of the state, hoping to turn around decades of environmental degradation. The Pella Wildlife Area is ...

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 ...

HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Department of Environmental Quality has released the final bond for the Big Sky Coal Mine. Area A is the final section of the the Big Sky Coal Mine to be restored. This ...

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 ...

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 ...