Strip Mining Worsened the Severity of Deadly Kentucky Floods, Say Former Mining Regulators. They Are Calling for an Investigation In past flooding, hydrologists have calculated runoff 1,000 times ...

"We take swimming on strip pits pretty seriously," Riggin said ... the Kansas Department of Health and Environment's Surface Mining Section, said that the submerged items are not the only ...

Two former state and federal mining regulators say state and federal authorities should investigate the role strip mining played in devastating and deadly flooding in Eastern Kentucky and the ...

Haymaker went out with a friend to kayak and fish in the strip-mining pit, but he never came back. From the drone footage we captured, the water in the strip-mining pit looks pristine, but Zangari ...

Two former mining regulators want an investigation into just how badly strip mining impacted the recent, deadly Eastern Kentucky floods. "If you get an area that has been strip mined, and the soil ...