The President and Congress Deliver $11 Billion for Abandoned Mine Cleanups
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OCTOBER 4, 2022
Coal companies routinely walked away from gaping chasms in the land, polluted streams, and deforestation. The infrastructure act’s use of taxpayer dollars to finance the AML fund marks an abandonment of the intention of the mine cleanup law. The original law made coal companies pay for the industry’s past environmental harms.
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