Federal agency failed to monitor AZ coal mines' water use

Federal agency failed to monitor AZ coal mines' water use, report says

The researchers detailed what they said were failures by the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to hold the Peabody ...

As coal mines depleted a Navajo Nation aquifer, feds failed to flag ...

... Arizona. The researchers detailed what they said were failures by the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to hold the Peabody mining ...

Audit: State Agency Failed To Monitor Arizona Groundwater Quality

She said as far back as 2006 DEQ was working on state standards for arsenic and uranium to match the federal standards but stopped after ...

US Department of Labor finds 205 violations at 16 mines in March ...

The inspection found the operator failed to follow federally approved mine ventilation and roof-control plans and did not provide miners with a ...

The Navajo's Fight to Protect Water on Their Own Terms

Peabody pumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of water daily from the Navajo aquifer to transport 14 million tons of coal annually via an open ...

What Will It Take to Tackle Water Scarcity on the Navajo Nation?

... Arizona, agency, each ... “Then you have the issue of how the uranium and coal mines ... The federal agency that most closely oversees water ...

and Water Use of Coal Facilities in the Colorado River Basin

Water Rights and Use of Coal Plants and Mines . ... Arizona Corporation Commission and the Arizona Department of Water Resources . ... federal reserved water ...

US Department of Labor announces findings of impact inspections ...

MSHA conducted an impact inspection on Feb. 1 at Frontier Coal Company, Belcher Branch Mine, in Wyoming County, West Virginia. In October 2022, ...

Arizona and coal - Global Energy Monitor - GEM.wiki

Leaders of three American Indian tribes said in a Congressional hearing on May 26, 2011 that closing a coal-fired power plant in northern Arizona would ...

Arizona's groundwater laws mean proposed copper mine near ...

Nearly 80 percent of Arizona lacks any form of groundwater regulation, allowing big users like the copper mines supplying the energy ...

Effects of mining activity in Black Mesa's N-Aquifer go ... - IEEFA

The U.S. Department of the Interior has failed to hold Peabody Western Coal Company responsible for the effects of its decades-long mining ...

Reclamation of Coal Mining Operations: Select Issues and Legislation

... Water Act. All coal mining operations are ... operations, engineering techniques used ... ” Government Accountability Office, Coal Mine Reclamation, ...

GAO-18-305, COAL MINE RECLAMATION: Federal and State ...

OSMRE issued a ten-day notice to the Pennsylvania regulatory authority in 2015 because a water treatment system for a mine in that state did not ...

The records requested by Plaintiffs under FOIA are

(8) Any and all communications between OSM and other Federal agencies regarding. Peabody's permit application for Kayenta Mine Permit Renewal ...

Navajo water rights - Wikipedia

On June 22, 2023, the US Supreme Court ruled in Arizona v. Navajo Nation that the federal government of the United States has no obligation to ensure that the ...

Recommendations to Improve Mining on Public Lands

The IWG also recommends that Federal agencies use existing authorities to provide funding or technical assistance to Tribes for the same purposes. One ...

'The Coal Industry Is Back,' Trump Proclaimed. It Wasn't.

None of it proved to be enough. By late last year, both the Kayenta mine and the Navajo Generating Station had gone offline, a high-profile ...

EPA Reaches Settlement with Greenidge Generation LLC on ...

EPA Reaches Settlement with Greenidge Generation LLC on Actions to Address Compliance with Coal Ash Regulations · Failure to comply with certain ...

- A LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON S. 3571_GOOD SAMARITAN ...

Senator Risch is also cosponsoring this important bipartisan legislation. It is a pragmatic solution to the challenge of approximately 550,000 abandoned mines ...

The U.S. needs minerals for green tech. Will Western mines have ...

The Resolution Copper mine, not far from Superior, Ariz., would use billions of gallons of water from the Phoenix region over the next 40 ...