Energy & Science
U.S. Coal Miners Could Be Next in Line for Industry Bailouts
There’s agreement on both sides of the political spectrum that funds need to be unlocked to clean up defunct operations.
A dump truck carries a load of coal on a haulage road at the Peabody Energy Somerville Central mine in Oakland City, Indiana.
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There isn’t much that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Sierra Club agree on, but one of those rare things is a measure that’s part of the bipartisan infrastructure package to be considered by the U.S. House of Representatives later this month that would fund $11.3 billion to remediate coal mines abandoned before 1977.