“You can’t use it for nothing,” says Tracy Neece, a resident of the Harold, Kentucky, who owns a mountain that was strip-mined by coal companies that went bankrupt and avoided their reclamation responsibilities. Neece is now working to make sure Kentucky state officials ensure the land is reclaimed as required by law.
Reported by James Bruggers, Inside Climate News
Video by Alton Strupp and Michael Clevenger, The Courier Journal