Salazar & Pizarchik Announce $485 Million in Grants to States and Tribes to Clean Up Abandoned Coal Mines
December 2011 – Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, and Office of Surface Mining (OSM) Reclamation and Enforcement Director, Joe Pizarchik, announced that nearly half a billion dollars in grants will be allotted to states and tribes working to eliminate health and safety hazards caused by past coal mining. This year’s…
