Cleaning Up Abandoned Coal Mines is a BIG Problem That Needs BIG Solutions

Take Action! Call 1-888-464-1997, text RECLAIM to 69866, or visit reclaimact.com/ to contact your legislators.
A short new video tells the story of the abandoned mine lands plaguing communities across the country, and why Congress must act now to create jobs cleaning up these sites!
Tell your representative to support abandoned mine land cleanup by reauthorizing the federal program, passing the RECLAIM Act, and investing the billions of dollars needed to reclaim these dangerous sites!
Cleaning up these decades-old abandoned mine sites is an investment that will protect communities, clean up damaged land and water and create 13,000 jobs each year.
Learn more at reclaimact.com/
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Produced by
Appalachian Voices: appvoices.org/
With support from
RECLAIM Coalition: reclaimact.com/
The Alliance For Appalachia: theallianceforappalachia.org/
Edited by
Adam Campbell
Narration by
Jeffery West: www.jefferywestactor.com/
Graphs by
Jimmy Davidson: www.orchardhillmedia.com/
Music
"Dunbar"
Original composition by Tyler Hughes
Tyler Hughes, Todd Meade, Haselden Ciaccio
tylerhughes.bandcamp.com/
"Old Buzzard"
Traditional arrangement
Empty Bottle String Band
Tyler Hughes, Stephanie Jeter, Ryan Nickerson, Kristal Harma
www.emptybottlestringband.com/
AML cost data from Ohio River Valley Institute, Eric Dixon
ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/...
AML program reclamation and fee information from
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
www.osmre.gov/

[@bigal25938]

Abandoned Mine Lands program have been cleaning up sites since 1980. Still reclaiming them.

[@leemdynamo]

"Mine reclamation is a jobs program."

[@leemdynamo]

Seems Joe Manchin is busy with the wrong stuff.