Further decline in the coal industry gives rise to a new phenomenon: Zombie mines

A Scripps News investigation has found as many as 1,300 coal mining facilities across Appalachia that have been sitting for more than a decade without being productive and still may not be fully cleaned up. (Scripps News)

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