Mining

KRC Represents Sierra Club, Citizens Coal Council, Appalachian Voices

Citizens Coal Council, Appalachian Voices, and Sierra Club — filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement's final Ten-Day Notice Rule.

Coalfield Advocates Oppose Federal Rule Reducing Federal Oversight of State Regulation of Coal Mining Operations

We fight to protect the land and people of our nation’s coalfields from environmental harm associated with surface coal mining operations. Read the comments in opposition to a proposed rule that would reduce federal oversight on coal mining operation

KRC Opposes Proposed EPA Rule to Weaken Standards On Coal Combustion Residuals

KRC was proud to join 73 other organizations in commenting in opposition to a proposed EPA rulemaking that would weaken environmental protections associated with the management of coal combustion residuals from coal-fired power plants. 

KRC Endorses Sierra Club Comments In Opposition to Harlan County Strip Mine

KRC Endorses Sierra Club Comments In Opposition To Section 404 Permit for Proposed Harlan County Strip Mine

KRC Director Interviewed by Herald-Leader on Coal Mines

Recently, the Herald-Leader reached out to KRC Director, Tom FitzGerald, concerning Kentucky's coal industry low compliance rates.

KRC Joins 50 Environmental Groups Calling for Moratorium on Federal Coal Leasing

On behalf of our millions of members and supporters, we urge you to restore the 2016 moratorium on new federal coal leasing until the federal government can complete a thorough programmatic environmental impact review of the federal coal leasing.

PETITION FILED TO PROTECT WATER SUPPLY SOURCES OF THE HISTORIC TOWNS OF BENHAM AND LYNCH FROM STRIP MINING

Four residents of Harlan County have petitioned to designate the historic districts of the towns Benham and Lynch, Kentucky, the viewshed of those districts, and the water sources of the towns as unsuitable for strip mining.

Protecting Benham and Lynch from Expanded Mining

A petition to designate the historic districts within the cities of Benham and Lynch Kentucky and the viewshed from those districts, and the watersheds that provide the water supply for the towns as areas unsuitable for mining has been drafted by KRC

Additional Testing Recommended For Coal Combustion Ash Used For Fill

Clean Coal...Isn't!

Coal Industry Rebuffed In Effort to Weaken Protections Against Mining Near Homes, In Parks And Wilderness Areas

KRC Testifies on Coal Reclamation Bond Inadequacy

KRC Participates In Panel Discussion on the future of coal In Kentucky

Business Lexington Article Summarizes Recent Day-Long Forum On Coal In Kentucky

KRC Requests That Governor Withdraw Mining Road Exemption

KRC Responds To Announcement of Filing Of Bill By Senators McConnell and Paul To Limit EPA's Ability To Veto Mine Fill Permits

40th Anniversary of passage of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 is a time for sober reflection.

40th Anniversary of passage of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 is a time for sober reflection.

Statement Opposing Energy & Environment Cabinet Utility Coal Waste Rules

Statement Opposing Energy & Environment Cabinet Utility Coal Waste Rules

KRC Opposes "Reckless" Proposal To Allow Coal Combustion Ash Generators To Self-Regulate

KRC Opposes "Reckless" Proposal To Allow Coal Combustion Ash Generators To Self-Regulate

KRC Comments In Opposition To LGE Coal Combustion Waste Landfill

KRC Comments In Opposition To LGE Coal Combustion Waste Landfill

KRC Comments On Coal General Discharge Permits

KRC Comments On Coal General Discharge Permits

Opening Memorandum Filed In Appeal Challenging Rejection Of Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition For Lynch and Benham, Kentucky

Opening Memorandum Filed In Appeal Challenging Rejection Of Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition For Lynch and Benham, Kentucky

Debate On Coal With the Bluegrass Institute's Jim Waters and KRC's Director Tom FitzGerald is Now Online

Debate On Coal With the Bluegrass Institute's Jim Waters and KRC's Director Tom FitzGerald is Now Online

Bill Exempting Strip Mining In Streams From Mine Permitting If Done For "Farm Purposes" Could Be Bad For The Environment And Farmers

Bill Exempting Strip Mining In Streams From Mine Permitting If Done For "Farm Purposes" Could Be Bad For The Environment And Farmers

Zoning Approval For Western Kentucky Strip Mine Is Challenged

Zoning Approval For Western Kentucky Strip Mine Is Challenged

KRC Declines Surface Mining Award

KRC Comments Support EPA's Proposed Veto of 36 Coal Mining Discharge Permits

KRC Comments Support EPA's Proposed Veto of 36 Coal Mining Discharge Permits

KRC Comments on Proposed Mining Regulation Amendment

KRC Comments on Proposed Mining Regulation Amendment

Council testifies in opposition to proposed merger of Office of Surface Mining and Bureau of Land Management

KRC Comments on proposed state surface mining regulation changes

KRC Comments on proposed state surface mining regulation changes

State Agrees With Most of KRC's Comments On Proposed State Surface Mining Regulation Changes

State Agrees With Most of KRC's Comments On Proposed State Surface Mining Regulation Changes

KRC Comments on Proposed Trimble County Coal Ash Landfill

KRC Comments on Proposed Trimble County Coal Ash Landfill

KRC Opposes Request for "Valid Existing Rights" Finding That Would Allow Strip Mining Within Daniel Boone National Forest

KRC Opposes Request for "Valid Existing Rights" Finding That Would Allow Strip Mining Within Daniel Boone National Forest

Rejection of Benham and Lynch Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition Appealed

Rejection of Benham and Lynch Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition Appealed

KRC Presents Comments On Proposed Coal Combustion Waste Rule

KRC Presents Comments On Proposed Coal Combustion Waste Rule

Final FY 2011Mine Regulation Performance Agreement Between Office of Surface Mining and Kentucky Incorporates Several Recommendations From KRC

A significant impediment to remining sites where existing conditions are generating significant pollution runoff, is the adoption by EPA of regulations, 15 years after the Rahall Amendment to the Clean Water Act, which completely eviscerated...

Memorandum Of Understanding Among Mining And Water Agencies Will Implement Fill Minimization Protocol and Reduce The Size and Number of Valley Fills

Memorandum Of Understanding Among Mining And Water Agencies Will Implement Fill Minimization Protocol and Reduce The Size and Number of Valley Fills

KRC Comments on Proposed FY 2011Mine Regulation Performance Agreement

KRC Comments on Proposed FY 2011Mine Regulation Performance Agreement

KRC Comments On Scoping For Stream Protection Rule

KRC strongly supports the proposed actions to revise various components of the regulatory program in order to improve protections of streams from the impacts of surface coal mining operations.

Petition Filed To Designate Water Sources for Benham and Lynch Kentucky As Unsuitable For Surface Coal Mining

Petition Filed To Designate Water Sources for Benham and Lynch Kentucky As Unsuitable For Surface Coal Mining

EPA Proposes Rule To Regulate Coal Combustion Waste

EPA Proposes Rule To Regulate Coal Combustion Waste

KRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Water Supplies of Benham and Lynch

KRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Water Supplies of Benham and Lynch

"Fill Placement Optimization Process" Document Will Significantly Reduce the Number and Size of Steep Slope Coal Mine Valley Fills

KRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Lynch Water Reservoir

KRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Lynch Water Reservoir

Notice Served Of Intention To Sue Over Policy Allowing Permits Without Proof of Legal Right To Enter And Mine

Coal forum panelists, fresh from negotiations, say mountaintop-mine policing will get tougher

Coal Ash Is The Topic At CDC Science Seminar

Coal Mine General Water Discharge Permit Conditions Tightened

Coal Mine General Water Discharge Permit Conditions Tightened

KRC Opposes Strip Mine Above Lynch's Water Supply Intake

KRC Opposes Strip Mine Above Lynch's Water Supply Intake

KRC Comments On Proposed Reissuance Of Coal General Water Discharge Permit

KRC Comments On Proposed Reissuance Of Coal General Water Discharge Permit

KRC Responds To Obama Administration Proposed Mining Reforms

The Council harbors serious concerns regarding whether the proposed reforms go far enough to assure full implementation both of the Clean Water Act and the Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Act of 1977.

KRC Comments on Proposed Frasure Creek Mine

KRC Comments on Proposed Frasure Creek Mine

The Challenges Ahead In Coal Mining Regulation

The Challenges Ahead In Coal Mining Regulation

World of Coal Ash Conference Presentation

World of Coal Ash Conference Presentation

Current Issues In The Regulation of Coal Ash

Current Issues In The Regulation of Coal Ash

timony On Need To Better Control "Beneficial Reuse" of Coal Combustion Wastes

KRC Supplements Testimony On Need To Better Control "Beneficial Reuse" of Coal Combustion Wastes And For Federal Regulatory Framework For Managing Coal Combustion Ash

EPA Expresses Concerns Over Issuance of Authorizations For Dumping Mine Fill Material in Headwater Streams.

EPA Expresses Concerns Over Issuance of Authorizations For Dumping Mine Fill Material in Headwater Streams.

Updated Transition Paper On Surface Mining Includes Discussion of Rahall Remining Amendment

Updated Transition Paper On Surface Mining Includes Discussion of Rahall Remining Amendment

KRC Director Testifies Before Congressional Subcommittee On Need For Comprehensive Regulation Of Coal Combustion Wastes

KRC Director Testifies Before Congressional Subcommittee On Need For Comprehensive Regulation Of Coal Combustion Wastes

KRC Director Questions "Clean Coal" On State Of Affairs

2009 Session: KRC Statement On H.R. 493

KRC has reviewed H.R. 493, and appreciates Representative Rahall's effort to assure that national minimum standards are put in place to assure that the storage and disposal of coal combustion wastes, including coal ash in impoundments meet design...

TVA Ash Release Underscores Need For Comprehensive Federal Regulatory Framework For Management of Coal Combustion Wastes

KRC Develops Background Briefing Paper on Mining Issues For Incoming Administration

KRC Develops Background Briefing Paper on Mining Issues For Incoming Administration

Concerned About Strip Mining Abuses? Here Are Some Things You Can Do!

Concerned About Strip Mining Abuses? Here Are Some Things You Can Do!

KRC and Citizens Coal Council Challenge OSM Rule Weakening Permit Block Sanction Against Mining Law Violators

KRC and Citizens Coal Council Challenge OSM Rule Weakening Permit Block Sanction Against Mining Law Violators

Carbon Constraints and the Future of Coal

Carbon Constraints and the Future of Coal

Proposed National Rules On Coal Ash Disposal At Coal Mines Are Subject Of Comments

Proposed National Rules On Coal Ash Disposal At Coal Mines Are Subject Of Comments

KRC Op-ed Questions Special Session To Subsidize Coal-To-Liquid Plants

Lynch Residents Speak Out Against Proposed Mine Beneath City Water Reservoir

Lynch Residents Speak Out Against Proposed Mine Beneath City Water Reservoir

KRC Opposes Coal Mining Beneath City of Lynch Water Reservoir

KRC Opposes Coal Mining Beneath City of Lynch Water Reservoir

Mining Issues Discussed at U of L Brandeis School of Law Panel

KRC Comments On Proposed Rule On Coal Refuse Sites Remining

KRC Comments On Proposed Rule On Coal Refuse Sites Remining

OSM Rules Weakening Permit Blocks For Outlaw Mining Companies Is Opposed

OSM Rules Weakening Permit Blocks For Outlaw Mining Companies Is Opposed

Reissuance of Nationwide Permit Allowing Filling Of Headwater Streams And Wetlands By Coal Mining Operations Is Opposed

Reissuance of Nationwide Permit Allowing Filling Of Headwater Streams And Wetlands By Coal Mining Operations Is Opposed

Louisville Forum Panel Discussion Focuses On Mining

Louisville Forum Panel Discussion Focuses On Mining

KRC and Mountain Watershed Ass'n. Oppose Pennsylvania Coal Mine Blasting Rule Changes

KRC and Mountain Watershed Ass'n. Oppose Pennsylvania Coal Mine Blasting Rule Changes

Use of National Forest Road for Coal Haulage Opposed

Use of National Forest Road for Coal Haulage Opposed

Citizen's Coal Council and KRC Challenge to EPA's Remining and Western Alkaline Mining Rules Rejected By Divided Sixth Circuit Panel

Citizen's Coal Council and KRC Challenge to EPA's Remining and Western Alkaline Mining Rules Rejected By Divided Sixth Circuit Panel

Concerns Raised Regarding Proposed Hart County Quarry

KRC Testifies On Mining Impacts Before Environmental Quality Commission

KRC Opposes Mining Rule Change Weakening Scrutiny Over Changes In Control of Mine Companies

KRC Opposes Mining Rule Change Weakening Scrutiny Over Changes In Control of Mine Companies

KRC URGES EPA TO SET LIMITS ON COAL ASH DISPOSAL IN MINES

KRC URGES EPA TO SET LIMITS ON COAL ASH DISPOSAL IN MINES

Federal Circuit Rejects Takings Claim In Stearns Case

Federal Circuit Rejects Takings Claim In Stearns Case

KRC Responds To EPA Petition for Rehearing In Mining Case

KRC Responds To EPA Petition for Rehearing In Mining Case

6th Circuit Invalidates EPA Rules Relaxing Mine Pollution Standards

KRC SERVES NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUE TO FORCE REIMBURSEMENT OF MINING BOND POOL FUND

KRC SERVES NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUE TO FORCE REIMBURSEMENT OF MINING BOND POOL FUND

Kentucky withdraws haul road exemption from OSM

Kentucky withdraws haul road exemption from OSM

Citizens Coal Council and KRC Oppose Weakening of Permit Block Rules

State Revises Power Plant Ash Landfill Permit To Address KRC Concerns

State Revises Power Plant Ash Landfill Permit To Address KRC Concerns

Gathering Line Regulation Status

Gathering Line Regulation Status

KRC CRITICAL OF OSM RULE CHANGE WEAKENING STATE OVERSIGHT

Oral Arguments Heard In Remining / Western Mine Case

Oral Arguments Heard In Remining / Western Mine Case

Opening Brief Filed In Joint Tenancy - Strip Mining Case

Opening Brief Filed In Joint Tenancy - Strip Mining Case

REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS WITH DISPOSAL OF COAL COMBUSTION WASTES (CCW) AT MINES

OSM Urged To Reject Haul Road Exemption From Coal Mining Laws

OSM Urged To Reject Haul Road Exemption From Coal Mining Laws

APPEAL FILED IN SOLID WASTE & COAL POWER PLANT CASE

APPEAL FILED IN SOLID WASTE & COAL POWER PLANT CASE

STATE PROPOSES TO EXCLUDE ALL PUBLIC ROADS USED AND DAMAGED FROM COAL HAULAGE FROM MINING REGULATION

Proposed National Rules On Coal Ash Disposal At Coal Mines Are Subject Of Comments

KRC Opposes Removing Required Amendment To Kentucky Mining Regulations  

For the reasons set forth below, OSM should withdraw the proposed program amendment as being inconsistent with federal law and regulations, and should instead enforce the existing federal obligation that the state regulatory authority submit...

KRC DISCUSSES ABANDONED MINE LAND PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION

KRC DISCUSSES ABANDONED MINE LAND PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION

KRC WELCOMES DECISION BY UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PRESIDENT TO FOREGO MINING THE MAIN BLOCK OF THE ROBINSON FOREST

KRC WELCOMES DECISION BY UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PRESIDENT TO FOREGO MINING THE MAIN BLOCK OF THE ROBINSON FOREST

KRC comments on Thoroughbred Coal Ash Landfill

August 8, 2003: Non-Coal Testimony

Regulation Committee Rejects Non-Coal Reg. Reforms

Radio Show on Coal Waste Impoundments

Radio Show on Coal Waste Impoundments

August 14, 2003: Whitely County Stone

August 14, 2003: Whitely County Stone

Quecreek Mine Report Calls For Mine Mapping Reforms

Quecreek Mine Report Calls For Mine Mapping Reforms

Action Alert: Your help needed today & tomorrow

Action Alert: Your help needed today & tomorrow for regulations governing non-coal mining

Whitley County Stone

Whitley County Stone

Non-Coal Revisions Rejected

Non-Coal Revisions Rejected

KRC Non-Coal Testimony

KRC Non-Coal Testimony

KRC Requests OSM To Set Aside State Law Provisions Stripping Protections From New Pine Mountain Trail State Park

KRC Requests OSM To Set Aside State Law Provisions Stripping Protections From New Pine Mountain Trail State Park

REMOVAL OF FUNDS FROM BOND POOL REQUIRES MINING PROGRAM AMENDMENT

KRC comments on proposed Daniel Boone Forest Renewal of Mining Permit

OSM AGREES WITH KRC, DISAPPROVES MINING PROGRAM AMENDMENT

Chao-Norton Letter

UK Considers Mining Robinson Forest

UK Considers Mining Robinson Forest

MSHA INTERNAL INVESTIGATION SHORT ON ACTION

Comment today on proposed non-coal mining regulation revisions!

Comment today on proposed non-coal mining regulation revisions!

Comment Today on Non-Coal Regulation Revisions

Comment Today on Non-Coal Regulation Revisions

Alert #3: HJR 140 Would Stop Mine Monitoring of Oil & Grease.

Cabinet Supports Revocation of Nugent Permit

Cabinet Supports Revocation of Nugent Permit

Odds and Ends

Citizens Coal Council and KRC Challenge EPA Rule Relaxing Sediment Controls On Mining

Citizens Coal Council and KRC Challenge EPA Rule Relaxing Sediment Controls On Mining

KRC Comments On OSM Acid Mine Drainage Proposal

KRC Comments On Coalbed Methane Study

KRC Comments On Coalbed Methane Study

Regarding Reform Of Non-Coal Mining Regulations

Regarding Reform Of Non-Coal Mining Regulations

Cabinet Secretary Vacates Mining Permit Decision

Cabinet Secretary Vacates Mining Permit Decision

Public hearing on request to terminate protections

Public hearing on request to terminate protections

Environmental Concerns With Mining

The mining industry has been skating on the edge with their approach to worker safety and mining, and to social responsibility, and it has brought its woes on itself, and that the viability of the eastern coal industry.

Hearing Officer Recommends Mining Permit Decision Be Reversed

Hearing Officer Recommends Mining Permit Decision Be Reversed Categories:

Re: Proposed General Permit Reissuance, KPDES Permit No. KYG040000

A letter relating to Sunny Ridge Mining Company

Opening Brief Filed In Case Challenging Issuance of Mine Permits

Opening Brief Filed In Case Challenging Issuance of Mine Permits

REDEFINITION OF "FILL" MATERIAL

REDEFINITION OF "FILL" MATERIAL

Discussion in the Public Forum: UNMINED MINERALS TAX REVENUE THREATENED & ATV/ORVs

PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE MARTIN COUNTY COAL WASTE SPILL

PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE MARTIN COUNTY COAL WASTE SPILL

KRC Inquires About Frontier's Mining Bond Coverage

THE FAILURE OF MSHA'S MANAGEMENT

THE FAILURE OF MSHA'S MANAGEMENT

Right of Mining Companies To Condemn Land For Mineral Haulage

Right of Mining Companies To Condemn Land For Mineral Haulage

Use of Condemnation Powers By Mine Operators

The Coal Industry: Talking The High Road, Taking The Low Road

The Coal Industry: Talking The High Road, Taking The Low Road

Remining -Part 2

Remining- Part 1

KRC serves notice opposing coal slurry pond near Kentucky River

KRC serves notice opposing coal slurry pond near Kentucky River

Questioning the Stone Mountain Experimental Practice

Questioning the Stone Mountain Experimental Practice

Environmentalist spurns coal panel. By Bill Estep Lexington HERALD-LEADER

Regarding the NAS Coal Waste Impoundment Study

Regarding the NAS Coal Waste Impoundment Study

Supplemental Comments Regarding Composition of NAS Slurry Committee

Supplemental Comments Regarding Composition of NAS Slurry Committee

Study On Preventing Coal Waste Impoundment Failures and Breakthroughs

Study On Preventing Coal Waste Impoundment Failures and Breakthroughs

Coal Law Project Annual Report

Martin County Slurry