and whether it was a natural disaster or one caused by the coal mines that have drastically reshaped and scarred the landscape.
Kentucky, particularly the eastern mountains, are littered with abandoned coal mines. Many are a result of strip mining or, the latter a method in which mining companies use explosives to blast off a mountain's summit to get to the coal inside. The loss of the natural ridge lines, vegetation and trees, and the cracks in the mountains that are largely owned by companies often funnels rainwater into the thin valleys, or low-lying hollows, where most eastern Kentuckians make their homes.
SMCRA required every state to enforce the financial responsibility and reclamation obligation of the coal mine operators in their state. While some states required mining companies to pay reclamation costs upfront, others — like Kentucky — allowed them to put up a bond for the potential costs. In the past, small companies in Kentucky were allowed to create a pooled fund, while larger ones were able to self-bond, but the majority were done through a third party.
You've ruined your country in every way imaginable. 🤦
Nice try
Last hurricanes that decimated Houston were caused by catchment areas meant to relieve flooding were paved over and concrete doesn't allow water to seep. All the levies/seagrasses removed for homes, same help to avoid Hurrican flooding. and on and on and on.
BOTH. Our history is doing working until it's empty & leaving. remember floods in Carolina's released all the pig waste in 'ponds' meant to keep it. Diapers that will never disintegrate, fracking giving us flaming water, nuclear waste.
Good clean coal !!! 🤣
. GOP: Why don't we try more tax cuts for billionaires! .
figures NBC is pushing their BS agenda, no it was the RAIN.
but I thought the rain came from the sky
Are they? This seems like the abc article claiming the two people struck by lightening was due to climate change.