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Mark Olalde

Mark Olalde is a freelance investigative journalist and photographer who has reported on mining, energy policy and agriculture in the US, southern Africa and the Caribbean. His work digging into mine closure data earned him a McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism and recognition as South Africa's top environmental print reporter in 2017.www.markolalde.com
    Aug 13, 2018
    Energy

    The US’ hidden methane problem

    Unregulated, unnoticed coal mines across the US are leaking a potent greenhouse gas with the same greenhouse effect as 13 million cars
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    Apr 6, 2018
    Energy

    US agency calls for ban on controversial coal mine ‘self-bonds’

    The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is urging Congress to make coal mining companies pay for environmental clean-up and reduce the risk to taxpayers
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    Mar 26, 2018
    Energy

    Coal tycoon governor Jim Justice uses loophole to leave mines and workers idle

    Companies owned by WV governor exploited a supposedly temporary status to defer environmental clean up and leave miners in limbo, in some cases for decades
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    Mar 23, 2018
    Energy

    What happens to the land after coal mines close?

    Across the country, mining land has been reclaimed at low cost, leaving communities with few alternatives to rebuild their economies
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    Mar 15, 2018
    Energy

    Crackdown on coal mine ‘self-bonds’ stalls under Trump

    Regulators have almost wiped out risky practice since 2015-16 wave of bankruptcies, but some coal companies still insure themselves
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    Mar 15, 2018
    Energy

    Obama official: Trump cuts will leave coal clean-up agency unable to function

    The number of mine site inspections is falling and proposed budget cuts at the federal regulator will further erode oversight, a former top official warns
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    Mar 15, 2018
    Energy

    Why and how we investigated the coal industry’s clean-up funds

    The Reclaiming Coal investigation involved six months of crunching data from state and federal agencies, coupled with travel across the country
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    Mar 15, 2018
    Energy

    Reclaiming coal: US mines’ clean-up cash – all our data

    All of our data on the US coal industry’s reclamation bonds, compiled nationally and published here for the first time
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    Mar 14, 2018
    Energy

    US coal hasn’t set aside enough money to clean up its mines

    Schemes that favour coal companies in Appalachia have left a national shortfall experts said was ‘one of the biggest public failures that has gone under the radar’
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    Mar 22, 2017
    Energy

    Unfinished business: Coal miners across South Africa walk away from clean up

    Documents obtained by Climate Home reveal a growing crisis as big miners and government shift liability to small companies who cannot afford coal mine clean up
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    Climate Home News is an award-winning independent digital publication reporting on the international politics of the climate crisis.

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