Fewer coal companies obeying the law | Kentuckians For The Commonwealth

Fewer coal companies obeying the law

Posted by: jerry on June 5, 2011 at 08:00pm

A report from the U.S. Office of Surface Mining shows that coal industry compliance with surface mining laws dropped significantly in 2010 from previous years.


OSM surveyed 325 mine sites, chosen at random, and found that only 65 percent were in full compliance with the law. That's a drop from 87 percent in OSM's previous survey, in 2007-08.


Read more about this in a story by James Bruggers in The Courier-Journal.


Issue Area(s): 
Coal and Water

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