Mine safety offices in Kentucky and across Appalachia are on DOGE's chopping block
DOGE terminated leases for more mine safety offices in Kentucky than any other state, a move advocates say comes at the expense of miners' health.
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Surface mine reclamation in Eastern KY ‘alarmingly slow,’ leaving problems in its wake
Water rushing off a nearby surface coal mine that wasn’t fully reclaimed rutted out the road, he said, making it too rough to get across with his pickup truck. “They never did fix it ...
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W.Va. miner died after drill struck by falling rock in Boone County, incident report says
The incident occurred the morning of Jan. 29 at the Twilight MTR Surface Mine in Boone County by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. State officials identified the man as 55-year-old Steven ...