The General Assembly approved SB 624, a bill that would prohibit “planned subsidence” in bituminous coal mining from being considered presumptive evidence that the mining has the potential to cause pollution as defined by the state’s Clean Streams Law.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, subsidence is “the gradual settling or sudden sinking of the Earth’s surface owing to subsurface movement of Earth materials.”
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