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On today’s episode of The Confluence: SpotlightPA reporter Ed Mahon explains why the Justice Department alleged that eight Pennsylvania counties’ courts may have violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and how it applies to people with opioid use disorder; the executive director of the Mountain Watershed Association tells us why federal infrastructure funding could also help clean waterways that are polluted by abandoned mine runoff; and a look at how severe weather patterns are impacting local businesses.
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President Biden’s recently passed Infrastructure law includes $11.3 billion to clean up abandoned coal mine sites, and Pennsylvania is expected to get the largest share of those funds.
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A report by the environmental nonprofit Appalachian Voices finds Pennsylvania and six other states could face a new wave of abandoned mines as the coal industry declines. Abandoned mines are dangerous to human health and the environment, as they border local communities and leach acidic runoff into streams.
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Can apples grow on an abandoned mine site? That’s a question the West Virginia National Guard is spending more than $5 million to find out.West Virginia…
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Ryan Zinke, President Trump’s Interior Secretary, came to Western Pennsylvania to tout the federal government’s abandoned mine cleanup program. It was an…
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Environmental officials in Pennsylvania have long focused on cleaning up the most hazardous old mines, but they plan to start addressing other abandoned…