KRC represents Citizens Coal Council, Appalachian Voices, and the Sierra Club in U.S. District Court in a federal court challenge to the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement’s (OSMRE) revised Ten-Day Notice Rule.
Continue readingCitizens 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.
Continue readingWe 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
Continue readingKRC 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.
Continue readingKRC Endorses Sierra Club Comments In Opposition To Section 404 Permit for Proposed Harlan County Strip Mine
Continue readingOn 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.
Continue readingFour 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.
Continue readingA 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
Continue reading40th Anniversary of passage of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 is a time for sober reflection.
Continue readingStatement Opposing Energy & Environment Cabinet Utility Coal Waste Rules
Continue readingKRC Opposes "Reckless" Proposal To Allow Coal Combustion Ash Generators To Self-Regulate
Continue readingKRC Comments In Opposition To LGE Coal Combustion Waste Landfill
Continue readingKRC Comments On Coal General Discharge Permits
Continue readingOpening Memorandum Filed In Appeal Challenging Rejection Of Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition For Lynch and Benham, Kentucky
Continue readingZoning Approval For Western Kentucky Strip Mine Is Challenged
Continue readingKRC Comments Support EPA's Proposed Veto of 36 Coal Mining Discharge Permits
Continue readingKRC Comments on Proposed Mining Regulation Amendment
Continue readingKRC Comments on proposed state surface mining regulation changes
Continue readingState Agrees With Most of KRC's Comments On Proposed State Surface Mining Regulation Changes
Continue readingKRC Comments on Proposed Trimble County Coal Ash Landfill
Continue readingKRC Opposes Request for "Valid Existing Rights" Finding That Would Allow Strip Mining Within Daniel Boone National Forest
Continue readingRejection of Benham and Lynch Lands Unsuitable for Mining Petition Appealed
Continue readingKRC Presents Comments On Proposed Coal Combustion Waste Rule
Continue readingA 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...
Continue readingMemorandum Of Understanding Among Mining And Water Agencies Will Implement Fill Minimization Protocol and Reduce The Size and Number of Valley Fills
Continue readingKRC Comments on Proposed FY 2011Mine Regulation Performance Agreement
Continue readingKRC 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.
Continue readingPetition Filed To Designate Water Sources for Benham and Lynch Kentucky As Unsuitable For Surface Coal Mining
Continue readingEPA Proposes Rule To Regulate Coal Combustion Waste
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Water Supplies of Benham and Lynch
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Lynch Water Reservoir
Continue readingCoal Mine General Water Discharge Permit Conditions Tightened
Continue readingKRC Opposes Strip Mine Above Lynch's Water Supply Intake
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Reissuance Of Coal General Water Discharge Permit
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingKRC Comments on Proposed Frasure Creek Mine
Continue readingThe Challenges Ahead In Coal Mining Regulation
Continue readingWorld of Coal Ash Conference Presentation
Continue readingCurrent Issues In The Regulation of Coal Ash
Continue readingKRC Supplements Testimony On Need To Better Control "Beneficial Reuse" of Coal Combustion Wastes And For Federal Regulatory Framework For Managing Coal Combustion Ash
Continue readingEPA Expresses Concerns Over Issuance of Authorizations For Dumping Mine Fill Material in Headwater Streams.
Continue readingUpdated Transition Paper On Surface Mining Includes Discussion of Rahall Remining Amendment
Continue readingKRC Director Testifies Before Congressional Subcommittee On Need For Comprehensive Regulation Of Coal Combustion Wastes
Continue readingKRC Develops Background Briefing Paper on Mining Issues For Incoming Administration
Continue readingConcerned About Strip Mining Abuses? Here Are Some Things You Can Do!
Continue readingKRC and Citizens Coal Council Challenge OSM Rule Weakening Permit Block Sanction Against Mining Law Violators
Continue readingCarbon Constraints and the Future of Coal
Continue readingProposed National Rules On Coal Ash Disposal At Coal Mines Are Subject Of Comments
Continue readingKRC Opposes Coal Mining Beneath City of Lynch Water Reservoir
Continue readingKRC Comments On Proposed Rule On Coal Refuse Sites Remining
Continue readingOSM Rules Weakening Permit Blocks For Outlaw Mining Companies Is Opposed
Continue readingReissuance of Nationwide Permit Allowing Filling Of Headwater Streams And Wetlands By Coal Mining Operations Is Opposed
Continue readingKRC and Mountain Watershed Ass'n. Oppose Pennsylvania Coal Mine Blasting Rule Changes
Continue readingUse of National Forest Road for Coal Haulage Opposed
Continue readingKRC Opposes Mining Rule Change Weakening Scrutiny Over Changes In Control of Mine Companies
Continue readingKRC URGES EPA TO SET LIMITS ON COAL ASH DISPOSAL IN MINES
Continue readingFederal Circuit Rejects Takings Claim In Stearns Case
Continue readingKRC Responds To EPA Petition for Rehearing In Mining Case
Continue readingKRC SERVES NOTICE OF INTENT TO SUE TO FORCE REIMBURSEMENT OF MINING BOND POOL FUND
Continue readingKentucky withdraws haul road exemption from OSM
Continue readingState Revises Power Plant Ash Landfill Permit To Address KRC Concerns
Continue readingOral Arguments Heard In Remining / Western Mine Case
Continue readingOpening Brief Filed In Joint Tenancy - Strip Mining Case
Continue readingOSM Urged To Reject Haul Road Exemption From Coal Mining Laws
Continue readingAppeal Filed in Solid Waste & Coal Power Plant Case
Continue readingProposed National Rules On Coal Ash Disposal At Coal Mines Are Subject Of Comments
Continue readingFor 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...
Continue readingKRC DISCUSSES ABANDONED MINE LAND PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION
Continue readingKRC WELCOMES DECISION BY UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY PRESIDENT TO FOREGO MINING THE MAIN BLOCK OF THE ROBINSON FOREST
Continue readingQuecreek Mine Report Calls For Mine Mapping Reforms
Continue readingKRC Requests OSM To Set Aside State Law Provisions Stripping Protections From New Pine Mountain Trail State Park
Continue readingComment today on proposed non-coal mining regulation revisions!
Continue readingComment Today on Non-Coal Regulation Revisions
Continue readingCabinet Supports Revocation of Nugent Permit
Continue readingCitizens Coal Council and KRC Challenge EPA Rule Relaxing Sediment Controls On Mining
Continue readingRegarding Reform Of Non-Coal Mining Regulations
Continue readingPublic hearing on request to terminate protections
Continue readingThe 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.
Continue readingOpening Brief Filed in Case Challenging Issuance of Mine Permits
Continue readingPreliminary Analysis of the Martin County Coal Waste Spill
Continue readingRight of Mining Companies To Condemn Land For Mineral Haulage
Continue readingThe Coal Industry: Talking The High Road, Taking The Low Road
Continue readingKRC Service Notice, Opposes Coal Slurry Pond
Continue readingQuestioning the Stone Mountain Experimental Practice
Continue readingRegarding the NAS Coal Waste Impoundment Study
Continue readingStudy On Preventing Coal Waste Impoundment Failures and Breakthroughs
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