Massive Funding Boost Spurs Coal Clean-up Efforts in Appalachia

By Lorelei Goff | September 13, 2024 |
An active construction site on a steep hillside shows building in progress on a retaining wall. Residential homes can be seen in the background.

Plans are underway to give Kentucky residents whose water supplies have been adversely affected by historic coal mining practices access to clean, piped water through the Kentucky Division of Abandoned Mine Lands’ Water Supply Replacement Program. The project is one of many across the Appalachian region made possible by an injection of $725 million in…

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