Proposed mine expansion raising pollution concerns in Canada and US

Mongabay
Jul 29, 2026, 6:31 pm116 ptsTrending
The Elk Valley in southeast British Columbia is home to Canada’s four largest coal mines. With a proposed mine expansion moving through environmental assessment, people on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border worry the valley’s decades-old pollution problem could get even worse. Industrial coal mining in…

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