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An aerial view of the Maxine Mine site along the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River near Praco, Ala. (Courtesy Nelson Brooke, Black Warrior Riverkeeper, flight provided by SouthWings ...
A federal judge in Birmingham has approved a lawsuit settlement that will force the Drummond Company to clean up a leaking coal mine site along the Black Warrior River and pay $3.65 million.
With coal production at its lowest level in 30 years, abandoned mines around the country are causing major environmental problems. They can catch fire, and debris from them can contaminate the ...
For decades, Swoyersville, Pennsylvania, population 5,000, has been split in half by a mountain of nearly half a million tons of coal mining waste. When the wind kicks up, black dust drifts across ...
The most mines were in the Coal Valley area, he said. ``Carbon Cliff saw some mining in the early 1850s or so,'' Mr. Stafford said. ``The area called Coaltown around Black Hawk College started in ...
When coal dominated South Korea’s energy mix, the city supplied roughly 30 percent of the nation’s total output and earned the nickname “black-gold city.” But as the energy landscape ...