The money can be used to clean up scars from mines abandoned before 1977, including waste heaps, underground fires and mines that release methane.
Pennsylvania is eligible for a surge of funds this year from the federal infrastructure law to clean up lands and waterways damaged by abandoned coal mines, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced Monday.
The funding announced Monday is more than triple Pennsylvania’s typical annual grant. In the past five years, Pennsylvania’s abandoned mine land grants from the federal government averaged $65.5 million a year, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. The money can be used to clean up scars from mines abandoned before 1977, including waste heaps, underground fires and mines that release methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The infrastructure bill prioritizes funding for projects that employ dislocated coal industry workers, the Interior Department said.
Pennsylvania’s 5,500 miles of mine-damaged streams have historically received far less federal grant money than abandoned mine sites that pose the greatest threat to human safety, like waste piles and tunnels at risk of collapse.
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