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Acid Mine Drainage

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Acid mine drainage colors streams, creeks and rivers rust orange with dangerous pollution from mining operations. These polluted bodies of water are an eyesore, but more importantly, they pose an ongoing threat to the health of people and wildlife, and undermine development efforts. The Abandoned Mine Lands fund has helped clean up many sites impacted by AMD across the country, but an untold number still exist and clean-up projects already in operation must be operated indefinitely. Advocates for mine reclamation have been speaking with experts on AMD about the challenges posed by this persistent form of pollution and what’s needed to fix the problem.

Blog Series

Confronting acid mine drainage: A conversation with Marissa Lautzenheiser

Marissa Lautzenheiser leads acid mine drainage clean-up efforts for Rural Action in Appalachian Ohio. In this conversation, Lautzenheiser lays out the basics of the AMD challenge, discusses the unique funding needs for AMD clean-up, and talks about some of the innovative work Rural Action is doing to tackle this problem.

Read the full conversation.

How acid mine drainage fits into pending mine cleanup legislation: A conversation with Joe Pizarchik

Joe Pizarchik, former head of OSMRE and one of the nation’s foremost experts on complex and sprawling abandoned mine lands issues, provides an essential overview of how acid mine drainage fits into pending legislative proposals and where we should look next.

Read the full conversation.

Learn more about the Abandoned Mine Lands program


This short video from July 2021 tells the story of the abandoned mine lands plaguing communities across the country, and why Congress must act to create jobs cleaning up these sites. Reclaiming these decades-old abandoned mine sites is an investment that will protect communities, clean up damaged land and water and create 13,000 jobs each year.

Contact Congress

It’s essential that Congress reauthorize the Abandoned Mine Lands program and provide additional funding for mine reclamation.

Contact your member of Congress now!


Protecting the Central and Southern Appalachian Mountain Region


Source: https://appvoices.org/acid-mine-drainage/


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