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<title>Mine cleanup program extended</title>
<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers in Washington have quietly extended for 14 years a coal industry tax that funds the cleanup of abandoned mines.Congress also instituted major reforms in how cleanup money is spent and ordered significant increases in reclamation money sent to s...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Byrd wins abandoned mines extension</title>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Negotiations broke down between Wyoming Rep. Barbara Cubin and members from Eastern states over abandoned mine cleanup language this week, forcing Cubin to drop her plan to attach the mine legislation to the pending energy bill.At the same t...]]></description>
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<title>Wyo. lawmaker seeks AML deal</title>
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<title>Tensions rise over AML bill</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Pennsylvania congressman turned up the rhetorical heat Thursday in the debate over extending the federal government’s program to clean up abandoned coal mines.At the same time, Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., was working to give the Abandoned Mine Land p...]]></description>
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<title>Trout Unlimited advocates renewal of mine cleanup fund</title>
<description><![CDATA[The national conservation group Trout Unlimited on Tuesday urged Congress to approve a long-term extension of the tax that funds the cleanup of abandoned coal mines.“The job of cleaning up the coalfields simply isn’t done, so we still very much need the ...]]></description>
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<title>Rahall reintroduces bill to clean up abandoned mines</title>
<description><![CDATA[Rep. Nick J. Rahall has reintroduced his version of a bill to extend and reform the nation’s program to clean up abandoned coal mines.The West Virginia Democrat again proposed the 15-year extension with Rep. Barbara Cubin, a Wyoming Republican who is cha...]]></description>
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<title>Byrd moves to extend program to clean up abandoned mines</title>
<description><![CDATA[With time again running down, U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd on Wednesday moved to temporarily rescue the federal program that cleans up abandoned coal mines.The West Virginia Democrat, along with Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., convinced the Senate Appropriations ...]]></description>
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Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>With new budget, mine cleanup future unclear</title>
<description><![CDATA[By the end of the year, the fund that cleans up the nation’s abandoned coal mines is expected to have an unspent balance that approaches $2 billion.On Monday, President Bush again asked lawmakers to cut the amount of that money that the U.S. Office of Su...]]></description>
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Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Funding bill extends mine cleanup program</title>
<description><![CDATA[The federal program to clean up abandoned coal mines will continue through at least June 2005, under a government funding bill approved over the weekend.Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., included language in the bill to allow federal officials to continue co...]]></description>
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Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Mine cleanup program gets reprieve</title>
<description><![CDATA[The federal program to clean up abandoned coal mines will live on through at least November, because of action taken by Sen. Robert C. Byrd.Byrd, D-W.Va., got an extension of the program included in a continuing resolution that funds the federal governme...]]></description>
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Fri, 01 Oct 2004 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Mine tax extension possible</title>
<description><![CDATA[A coal industry tax that funds abandoned mine cleanups will likely be extended, at least for another seven weeks.The House on Wednesday continued the Abandoned Mine Land, or AML, tax as part of a resolution to fund federal government operations through N...]]></description>
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Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>AML program running out of time</title>
<description><![CDATA[In 11 days, the federal coal tax that funds the cleanup of abandoned mines is set to expire.Across the coalfields, thousands of acres of abandoned sites remain unreclaimed. If the tax dies, many of them will probably never be cleaned up.As the Sept. 30 d...]]></description>
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Mon, 20 Sep 2004 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Bush continues, but cuts abandoned mine tax</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration on Thursday proposed to continue — but cut by 75 percent — the coal tax that funds the federal Abandoned Mine Land program.Under the U.S. Office of Surface Mining plan, the tax would raise $69 million next year to continue require...]]></description>
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<title>Extension of mine fund tax added to budget bill</title>
<description><![CDATA[Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., took the first step Tuesday to stave off the end of the federal program that cleans up abandoned coal mines.Byrd won Senate Appropriations Committee approval to extend a tax that funds the cleanup program for another nine mo...]]></description>
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Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Abandoned mine reclamation program should be extended</title>
<description><![CDATA[Ken Ward’s series on the Abandoned Mine Reclamation program could not have come at a more critical juncture in the life of this program. As Mr. Ward points out, the reclamation fees that fund the program will expire Sept. 30, leaving the program without ...]]></description>
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Fri, 03 Sep 2004 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Abandoned mine cleanup in peril</title>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. Interior Department officials on Monday warned Congress that “millions of acres” of abandoned mines would go unreclaimed if lawmakers do not renew a coal industry tax.Rebecca Watson, assistant Interior secretary, urged Congress to act and warned abo...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Tue, 31 Aug 2004 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Renewal of cleanup fund critical to state</title>
<description><![CDATA[Abandoned mine lands and the hazards they pose to West Virginians are one of the most pressing environmental issues in our time. Thanks to Ken Ward’s recent series, the issue of abandoned mine lands is where it should be — in the headlines and on the minds...]]></description>
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Mon, 30 Aug 2004 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Abandoned</title>
<description><![CDATA[WHERE to start. A 27-year-old federal program intended to repair deadly and dangerous problems left by abandoned coal mines puts less than half of its money into those projects.Instead, coalfield residents in West Virginia and other states still are thre...]]></description>
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Tue, 24 Aug 2004 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Price of abandoned mine cleanups never clear</title>
<description><![CDATA[In 1986, experts from the National Academy of Sciences conducted a broad review of the federal program to clean up abandoned coal mines.It was halfway through the 15-year program’s original life. Lawmakers wanted to know how it was doing.At the time, thi...]]></description>
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Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>Pa. stream cleanups overrun AML budget</title>
<description><![CDATA[When Interior Secretary Gale Norton wanted to promote the Bush administration’s new plan to rework the federal abandoned mine cleanup program, she went first to Pennsylvania.Long one of the nation’s largest coal producers, Pennsylvania needs more money to...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[kward@wvgazette.com (Ken Ward Jr.)]]>
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Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Wyo. diverts its mine reclamation funds</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the fall of 1999, University of Wyoming students and faculty moved into a new, $20 million geology building.Located on the university’s Laramie campus, the 65,500-square-foot facility included new computer equipment, state-of-the-art laboratories and a...]]></description>
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Mon, 16 Aug 2004 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>AML problems abound, but D.C. keeps money</title>
<description><![CDATA[WILKINSON — As he drives along W.Va. 44 in Logan County, abandoned mine inspector Mike Richardson sees problems everywhere.Over there, a dangerous highwall looms near a school. Up ahead, a coal seam fire smolders underground.Along almost every ridge, Ric...]]></description>
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Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>Far from the main goal</title>
<description><![CDATA[For years, water seeped out of an old, underground coal-mine portal along Speed Branch in Raleigh County.Charles Withrow lives about a mile down the hollow. So does his 92-year-old mother. Gladys Withrow has lived in the area, east of Whitesville, since t...]]></description>
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Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>Related Web sites</title>
<description><![CDATA[Web sites about abandoned coal mines:U.S. Office of Surface Mining Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation page http://www.osmre.gov/osmaml.htmNational Association of Abandoned Mine Land Programshttp://www.onenet.net/~naamlp/index.htmlInterstate Mining Com...]]></description>
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Sun, 15 Aug 2004 01:00:00 -0400
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