U.S. Scraps Prison Plan for Abandoned Coal Mine

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By Deutsche WelleJun 20, 2019, 11:18 am198 pts
By Daniel Moattar Eastern Kentucky's hills are interrupted by jarring flats of bare rock: the aftermath of mountaintop removal mining, which uses explosives to destroy and harvest coal-rich peaks. These hills are also home to four federal prisons — and until this week, an abandoned mountaintop mine in Letcher…

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