What Happens to the Land After Coal Mines Close?

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By GuestMar 25, 2018, 8:02 am233 pts
By Mark Olalde, Climate Home News, in Boone County, WV and Paonia, CO. Eleven generations of Dustin White’s family have lived in West Virginia. Many of them were buried in a cemetery now surrounded by a massive mountaintop removal coal mine. The Twilight mine, which flattened and stripped an expanse of…

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