How coal mining increased East Kentucky’s flood risk

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By John McCrackenAug 8, 2022, 10:45 am271 pts
Appalachian states like Kentucky have a long, turbulent history with coal and mountaintop removal — an extractive mining process that uses explosives to clear forests and scrape soil in order to access underlying coal seams. For years, researchers have warned that land warped by mountaintop removal may be…

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