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Michael Hewitt is the Program Manager for EPCAMR and has worked in several capacities for the organization since 2001. For more information please visit his biography page.

Anthracite Trail Riders Club Cleans Up the Whaleback

March 4, 2012 – The Anthracite Trail Riders Club, a group of ATV riders and volunteers from Coal Township, is getting the Whaleback ready for a group of geology professors who will come to study the geologic formation. The Whaleback is an anticlinal exposure of folded rock near Shamokin. Given its locations near…

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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…

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