The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (“Fourth Circuit”) addressed in a March 30th Opinion the scope of the federal Clean Water Act Permit Shield. See Southern Appalachian Mountain ...

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 ...

Until three years ago, Sam Gilbert’s neighborhood in this secluded mountain nook consisted of vegetation, salamanders in the creek and lush mountain peaks. Then a noisy strip mining operation hunkered ...

WASHINGTON - Regulation of surface mining and reclamation has improved over the past three decades, but concerns remain over enforcement and especially funding for the Abandoned Mine Land program, ...

Companies owned by Gov. Jim Justice and his family are disputing a civil filing by federal authorities over unpaid surface mine penalties. Lawyers for the Justice companies responded on July 31 to a ...

CASPER — Entangled in the congressional infrastructure debate, Wyoming’s biggest source of mine cleanup funding expired last week, raising questions about the future of reclamation. The federal ...