Federal regulators inspect Oak Grove mine and the site of a fatal home explosion above it
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Federal regulators waited 7 months to investigate a deadly home explosion above a gassy coal mine
Coalfield residents across the country feel ignored as their homes sink and flammable gas rises from underground mining. In ...
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Federal Regulators Inspect a Mine and the Site of a Fatal Home Explosion Above It
Following an Inside Climate News investigation, inspectors from the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement inspected the Oak Grove Mine, the home explosion site and the house of a ...
Federal regulators waited seven months to investigate home explosion in Oak Grove
OAK GROVE —Mining for coal under homes can make land sink and settle, exactly what residents of this small community say has ...
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Assessing the technologies used to reduce methane in Australia’s coal mines
As methane’s global warming potential is 21 times greater than that of carbon dioxide, coal miners are faced with ...
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Look Back: Four miners saved, four killed in 1931 Mocanaqua coal mine explosion
A gas explosion dropped hundreds of tons of coal and rock into a coal seam opening ... were immediately pulled from the doomed mine and taken to Nanticoke State Hospital for severe burns to ...
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Chinese firm entangled in Hwange pollution crisis
Justice Chinhema, general secretary of the Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union, expressed grave concern over ...
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West Virginians look to find a place for solar power in coal country
The state lost about half its mining jobs since 2012 under new environmental regulations and competition from natural gas and renewable ... on abandoned mine land will not solve coal country ...