OpEd: To incentivize economic growth in our declining coal towns and prevent extensive pollution, what if our mines were ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship embarked this month on a 162-acre abandoned mine land reclamation project in the Pella Wildlife Area. This is one of about 120 reclamation ...

President Biden's Investing in America agenda to address dangerous and polluting abandoned mine lands, create good-paying ...

Land in the Pella Wildlife Area (pictured) is part of an abandoned coal mine that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is reclaiming. (Photo courtesy of Iowa DNR) The Iowa ...

Rock Springs, Wyoming, was built on top of dozens of coal mine tunnels that fueled Union Pacific’s Westward rail expansion. For decades after the mines closed, the town almost collapsed into the ...

Coalfield residents across the country feel ignored as their homes sink and flammable gas rises from underground mining. In ...

Inevitably, coal reserves are depleted as coal extraction progresses and mines are closed and abandoned. Abandoned mines continue to emit methane for many years after closure, yet their emissions ...

Coal mining in Iowa declined in the 1920s and most mines closed in the 1950s. Reclamation of the abandoned areas began in 1983 following the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977.

Land in the Pella Wildlife Area (pictured) is part of an abandoned coal mine that the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship is reclaiming. (Photo courtesy of Iowa DNR) The Iowa ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture embarked this month on the reclamation of 162 acres of abandoned mine land ... recognition for their ingenuity. Coal mining was a short but significant part ...