Climate Change
Congressional Office Agrees to Investigate ‘Zombie’ Coal Mines
Kentucky citizens’ law group finds 40 percent of state’s active coal strip mines are “functionally abandoned.”
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—With a federal investigation into technically active but non-producing “zombie” mines set to begin in March, a citizens law group in Kentucky has found production idled at nearly 40 percent of all active coal strip mines in the state, with some not mined in more than a de’cade.
Congressional Office Agrees to Investigate ‘Zombie’ Coal Mines