Environmental Law and Policy Center

This renewal grant will support the Environmental Law and Policy Center’s efforts to ensure coal companies honor their reclamation obligations, and that taxpayers are protected from paying clean-up costs. The Center will educate decision makers on the need for stronger regulations at the state and federal levels to ensure coal mine reclamation without taxpayer liability, provide in-depth materials to the media, and engage leading legal experts in its efforts to protect the public.

Financial challenges in the coal industry have raised the potential that coal mine reclamation will not happen or that taxpayers will bear the restoration costs when companies go bankrupt, as many have over the last few years. This grant to the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC) will support its efforts to ensure coal companies honor their reclamation obligations and that taxpayers are protected from paying clean-up costs. ELPC will educate decision-makers on the need for stronger regulations at the state and federal levels that will ensure coal mine reclamation without taxpayer liability, provide in-depth materials to the media, and engage leading legal experts in its efforts to protect the public.