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More Federal Money to Speed Repair of Historic Mining Harms in Pennsylvania

Infrastructure funding helps state efforts to fix subsidence, water pollution and stream destruction.

In Luzerne County, in northeast Pennsylvania, the Nanticoke Creek is dry most of the time because unless there’s a major storm, any water that flows into it disappears into underground voids created by coal mines that operated there for decades until the 1960s.