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2. Surface mining reclamation in West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Surface Mining is done all over the United States and this causes growing concerns about the impact on the environment. West Virginia is one of the leading coal mining states in the USA and the environmental debate has never been stronger. There have been battles fought and protest marches to raise awareness for environmental impacts of coal ...

3. Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia - Wikipedia

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   West Virginia is the largest coal-producing state in Appalachia, and the second-largest coal-producing state in the United States, accounting for about 11% of the nation's total coal production in 2014 (the largest coal-producing state is Wyoming, which lies in the Western coal region and accounts for 40% of U.S. coal production). [4]

4. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

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   Preventing Government Waste and Protecting Coal Mining Jobs in America (H.R. 2824; 113th Congress) is a bill that, if passed, would amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to require state programs for regulation of surface coal mining to incorporate the necessary rule concerning excess spoil, coal mine waste, and buffers ...

5. Wyoming coal mine is shedding jobs ahead of the power ... - AOL

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   Despite the slump, West Virginia added 1,500 coal mining jobs in 2022 and employed by far more miners than any other U.S. state at 13,000, which is 30% of the total U.S. coal-mining employment ...

6. Coal miner killed on the job in West Virginia. The death ...

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   A coal miner was killed on the job in West Virginia on Friday night, Gov. Jim Justice said. The Republican governor said Gary Chapman, 33, of South Williamson, Kentucky, died after being injured ...

7. Coal mining in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In the decade 2005–2014, US coal mining fatalities averaged 28 per year. [46] The most fatalities during the 2005–2014 decade were 48 in 2010, the year of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, which killed 29 miners. [82] 2016 was the first year in U.S. coal mining history that had no fatalities due to coal mine roof falls. [83]