There’s nothing like mutual respect, cooperation, and concern for your neighbor to get the job done. Energy and Environment Cabinet Scientist Carl Hays says that’s exactly the type of solidarity the Division of Abandoned Mine Lands takes into each and every project, including cleanup efforts following a recent landslide in Clay County. -Read More-
Category: Kentucky
ABANDONED MINE LANDS The Work of Saving Lives and Properties Can’t Slide: Division of Abandoned Mine Lands Continues Providing Emergency Assistance
As an Environmental Control Supervisor with the Division of Abandoned Mine Lands (AML), Scott Muncy walks the hills of eastern Kentucky daily, helping property owners with issues that sometimes arise on or near the state’s former coal fields. -Read More-
Beshear, Rogers praise abandoned mines pilot projects
FRANKFORT, Ky (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers celebrated in a virtual ceremony Thursday the completion of economic development and tourism-related projects on abandoned mine lands. Read More
Share Interior Announces More Than $170 Million in Conservation Funding for States and Tribes to Reclaim and Repurpose Abandoned Coal Mines
Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Lousiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Uncategorized, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming
WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced the availability of Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Abandoned Mine Land (AML) Reclamation grants through the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE). A total of $170.9 million in grants will be provided this year for states and tribes to reclaim and repurpose abandoned coal lands. […]
Paintsville Utilities details project for $4 million AML grant
The Paintsville Utilities Commission recently received a $4 million grant from the Abandoned Mine Lands Economic and Community Development Pilot Program, as announced at the annual Shaping Our Appalachian Region Summit in Pikeville last week. – Read More –
House subcommittee told of the benefits of AML, RECLAIM
The federal RECLAIM Act, legislation to boost economic transition efforts in the nation’s coal communities by accelerating the release of $1 billion for mine reclamation projects tied to local economic development efforts, is expected to be re-introduced in the new Congress in mid-April. – Read More –
$34.4M in Abandoned Mine Land grants to 14 Eastern Kentucky counties will support economic development
PIKEVILLE, Ky. — U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers and Gov. Matt Bevin announced Friday 20 grants totaling $34.4 million to spur economic development and job creation in Eastern Kentucky. – Read More –
Energy and Environment Cabinet recognizes state environmental award winners at annual conference
Smith Brothers Excavating, of Manchester, which was honored with the Excellence in Abandoned Mine Lands Reclamation Award, given by the Kentucky Division of Abandoned Mine Lands, for its reclamation project that demonstrated that mining can be completed and the area returned to a condition that is equal to or better than what existed before. The […]
New technology is changing the Energy and Environment Cabinet New technology is changing the Energy and Environment Cabinet
Drone technology that first gained notoriety through its use in military activity, is now being adopted for civilian use, and is being used by the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet to save both time and taxpayers’ money in its mission to oversee forests, inspect abandoned and reclaimed mine land and even oversee dumps. -Read More-
City of Hazard awarded $900,000 AML grant to bring natural gas to regional industrial park
FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 24, 2018) – U.S. Rep. Harold “Hal” Rogers (KY-05) and Gov. Matt Bevin today announced a grant by the Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Enforcement (OSMRE) through the 2017 Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Pilot program that will create jobs in Eastern Kentucky. -Read More-