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How we measured the environmental cost of bankrupt mines

Avatar photo by Scott Pham for ProPublica, Ken Ward Jr. and Joel Jacobs, ProPublica April 26th, 2023April 26th, 2023

Using data from Kentucky and West Virginia environmental regulators, ProPublica and Mountain State Spotlight found that mines that have gone through multiple bankruptcies in the past decade had a higher median number of environmental violations than nonbankrupt mines.

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