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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWest Virginia and Manchin to get a boost from mine cleanups
Biden administration announced $260 million for coal mine reclamation grants days after Manchin endorsed Deb Haaland for Interior secretaryBy Joseph Morton
Posted March 1, 2021 at 3:25pm
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West Virginia will be one of the main beneficiaries of the more than $260 million for coal mine reclamation grants announced Monday by the Interior Department, less than a week after Joe Manchin, the state's senior senator, endorsed President Joe Biden's nominee to run the department, Deb Haaland.
States such as West Virginia and Wyoming that have suffered the most from dramatic declines in coal demand will get most of that money through grants that aim to provide an economic boost to communities that long depended on the mines for their livelihood.
Laura Daniel Davis, Interior's principal deputy assistant secretary for land and minerals management, said in a release that the grants boost local economies while addressing environmental damage.
"The job of cleaning up our lands and waters and revitalizing our communities doesn't end with this round of grant announcements or the next," Davis said. "We look forward to working with Congress to ensure that we can make the needed investments to clean up abandoned mines, as well as orphan oil and gas wells, across the country."
Biden administration officials have repeatedly cited such cleanup projects as a way aggressive environmental actions can also help create jobs for blue-collar workers.
https://www.rollcall.com/2021/03/01/west-virginia-and-manchin-to-get-a-boost-from-mine-cleanups/
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West Virginia and Manchin to get a boost from mine cleanups (Original Post)
Donkees
Mar 2021
OP
Well, I'd hope mine reclamation grants went to where the mines are. Duh.
Hermit-The-Prog
Mar 2021
#3
msongs
(67,395 posts)1. how much of this will be stolen thru fraud or some sorts of scams nt
Irish_Dem
(46,918 posts)2. Biden is using carrot, not stick.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,328 posts)3. Well, I'd hope mine reclamation grants went to where the mines are. Duh.
PhylliPretzel
(140 posts)4. Very "LBJ" of Biden
to get Manchin's vote for Haaland.
What can Joe and Schumer give to get Manchin's vote to kill the filibuster?
Seems like a win-win.
Autumn
(45,056 posts)5. We need to give him another $260 million for coal mine reclamation grants to get him
to support raising the minimum wage.