Iowa has paused reclamation of abandoned coal mines until state officials confirm whether federal project grants will be ...

No roads lead to Buxton anymore.A few battered foundations and quiet farmland are all that mark what was once a bustling coal community, founded around 1900 by ...

A program to reclaim and restore land contaminated by abandoned mines in Iowa has halted work due to funding uncertainty from the federal government. The Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation program ...

Several excavation companies are scrambling to find other work and have laid off employees because a federal funding freeze recently halted 11 mine reclamation projects in Iowa. "It's a pretty big ...