Abandoned Mine Lands Archives - The Dominion Post https://www.dominionpost.com/tag/abandoned-mine-lands/ Morgantown Area News Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:08:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.dominionpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-81287318_3042289439136500_6974497821747576832_n-32x32.png Abandoned Mine Lands Archives - The Dominion Post https://www.dominionpost.com/tag/abandoned-mine-lands/ 32 32 August site visit to determine immediate future of Emmett Drive https://www.dominionpost.com/2026/06/30/august-site-visit-to-determine-immediate-future-of-emmett-drive/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:08:45 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=568334 GRANVILLE — It looks as if Emmett Drive, the popular shortcut from University Town Centre Drive down to Monongahela Boulevard, will remain closed into early August at least. The road […]

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]]> MUB receives positive news on Morgans Run extension project https://www.dominionpost.com/2025/06/11/mub-receives-positive-news-on-morgans-run-extension-project/ Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:00:00 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=539843 MORGANTOWN — Residents in approximately three dozen homes in the Morgans Run Road area along Cheat Lake have spent years purchasing, collecting and hauling water due to low-producing wells plagued […]

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]]> Federal dollars invested in W.Va. will pay dividends https://www.dominionpost.com/2024/04/24/federal-dollars-invested-in-w-va-will-pay-dividends/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 03:04:00 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=334352 The new acid mine drainage treatment plant, which will filter and neutralize the tainted water from Richard Mine before it flows into Deckers Creek, came online last week to much […]

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]]> Do Justices always pay their debts? https://www.dominionpost.com/2023/06/07/do-justices-always-pay-their-debts/ Wed, 07 Jun 2023 04:02:21 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=291082 Early last week, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against James “Jay” Justice II (Gov. Jim Justice’s son and current CEO of Bluestone Coal Sales Corp.) and 13 of […]

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]]> Jan. 8 letters to the editor https://www.dominionpost.com/2023/01/07/jan-8-letters-to-the-editor-2/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 04:04:00 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=256595 Let’s create jobs cleaning up old mines A lot of work remains to be done to reclaim abandoned mine lands in West Virginia. Before passage of the Surface Mining Control […]

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]]> Dec. 4 letters to the editor https://www.dominionpost.com/2022/12/03/dec-4-letters-to-the-editor-2/ Sun, 04 Dec 2022 04:05:00 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=252702 Taxpayers left liable for reclamation costs West Virginia has over 173,000 acres of unreclaimed mine land — land that has been mined and left behind by the coal industry. The […]

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]]> Manchin, Capito, sign onto Senate bill to allow infrastructure act money to be used for acid mine drainage projects https://www.dominionpost.com/2022/06/07/manchin-capito-sign-onto-senate-bill-to-allow-infrastructure-act-money-to-be-used-for-acid-mine-drainage-projects/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 19:51:03 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=234956 MORGANTOWN — Sen. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito jointly announced on Tuesday that they’ve signed on to the Senate version of legislation to enable Infrastructure and Jobs Act money […]

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]]> Congress must pass the STREAM Act https://www.dominionpost.com/2022/04/20/congress-must-pass-the-stream-act/ Thu, 21 Apr 2022 03:06:00 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=230794 At the end of March, Rep. David McKinley cosponsored the House version of the Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines Act (STREAM Act). The bill is […]

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]]> McKinley introduces bill to allow infrastructure act Abandoned Mine Lands money to be used for acid mine drainage projects https://www.dominionpost.com/2022/04/02/mckinley-introduces-bill-to-allow-infrastructure-act-abandoned-mine-lands-money-to-be-used-for-acid-mine-drainage-projects/ Sat, 02 Apr 2022 21:24:00 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=229004 MORGANTOWN – Reps. David McKinley, R-W.Va., and Matt Cartwright, R-Pa., joined to introduce a bill in the U.S. House to ensure that Abandoned Mine Lands funding included in the bipartisan […]

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]]> Mylan Park Foundation one of nine to receive mine land grant https://www.dominionpost.com/2022/03/02/mylan-park-foundation-one-of-nine-to-receive-mine-land-grant/ Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:06 +0000 https://www.dominionpost.com/?p=226016 The Mylan Park Foundation in Morgantown was one of nine organizations recommended by Gov. Jim Justice to receive grant money from the Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER) Program, also […]

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