TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Jun 2, 2023

The Department of the Interior yesterday announced that nearly $725 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is available to Tennessee and 21 other states to reclaim abandoned coal mine lands. The money will help communities clean up dangerous environmental conditions and pollution caused by past coal mining. WATE in Knoxville reports that Tennessee is eligible for just over $8.5 million, and that at least 5,050 acres of abandoned mine land has already been reclaimed as a part of the Tennessee Land Reclamation Section that was started in 1981.