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Register Your AMD Project for PA Environmental Good Samaritan Act Volunteer Protection Today!!

Anne Daymut, WPCAMR, and Robert Hughes, EPCAMR In 1999, along with Growing Greener, Pennsylvania signed into law the Environmental Good Samaritan Act (EGSA).  This law is intended to encourage landowners and others to undertake projects to reclaim abandoned mineral extraction lands and abate water pollution caused by abandoned mines and…

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Regional Mining History Week Events to take place January 10-24th

The regional observance of Mining History Week will take place January 10-24, 2015. There will be programs in Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Pittston, Port Griffith, Wyoming, and Ashley. The annual event seeks to remember and honor the area’s Anthracite coal mine workers, and their families and communities. The programs are sponsored by the Anthracite Heritage Museum,…

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