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Article by by Leslie Kaufman and Will Wade for Bloomberg. November 8, 2022. Excerpt: Indemnity backs two-thirds of West Virginia’s coal bonds. The concentration worries just about everybody

Article by Josh Saul, Zachary Mider and Dave Mistich for Bloomberg. October 17, 2022. Excerpt: A joint investigation by Bloomberg News and NPR found that Alpha is one of several large US coal companies that transferred old mines in need of cleanup to smaller operators with meager financial resources, raising the risk that taxpayers, rather than industry, will eventually be stuck with the cost.

Article by A Martínez, Josh Saul, Zach Mider, Dave Mistich for NPR Morning Edition, October 17, 2022.
Excerpt: A Bloomberg News/NPR investigation found large U.S. coal companies used bankruptcy and asset transfers to move old mines to shaky new owners, putting at risk federally mandated land reclamation.

Article by James Bruggers for Inside Climate News, August 8, 2022. Excerpt: Two former state and federal mining regulators say state and federal authorities should investigate the role strip mining played in last month's devastating and deadly flooding in Eastern Kentucky and the condition of the mines after the torrential rainfall.

Article By James Bruggers for the CourierJournal, April 19, 2022. Excerpt: As the coal industry collapses in Kentucky, companies have racked up a rising number of violations at surface mines — yet state regulators have failed to bring a record number of them into compliance, internal documents show.