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[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122024/alabama-coal-mine-regulators-fail-to-protect-residents/ by Lee Hedgepeth 22/12/24 Inside Climate News] | [https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122024/alabama-coal-mine-regulators-fail-to-protect-residents/ by Lee Hedgepeth 22/12/24 Inside Climate News] | ||
Alabamians have for decades been raising their voices about the risks of longwall mining, an aggressive method of extracting coal that has left sinking homes in its wake and increased the risks of an explosive gas seeping to the surface. | Alabamians have for decades been raising their voices about the risks of longwall mining, an aggressive method of extracting coal that has left sinking homes in its wake and increased the risks of an explosive gas seeping to the surface. | ||
=====Clean Mining a Deception in Kentucky, Groups Say===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/us/clean-mining-a-deception-in-kentucky-groups-say.html by Michael Wines 17/11/14 The New York Times] | |||
In a state where coal-country creeks run red with iron, Frasure Creek Mining has been unusually clean of late: Amid tens of thousands of measurements that it submitted to Kentucky regulators in 2013 and early 2014, fewer than 400 exceeded the state’s limits for water pollution from coal-mine runoff. | |||
