Public Health & Safety Coal
Related High Priority Problems (Priority 1 & 2)
Of the $8.5 billion of high priority coal related
AML problems in the AML inventory, $6.6 billion, 78%, have yet to be reclaimed.
The $8.5 billion includes $3.6 billion in Pennsylvania watershed costs.
The unreclaimed high priority problems are quite
concentrated in a few states. Eight states (Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Kentucky, Kansas, Virginia, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Illinois) account for 95 % of these
problem costs.
Almost 83 percent of the $2.3 billion of coal
related environmental problems in the AML inventory are not reclaimed. And this
represents only a small part of the total problem as no systematic effort has
been made to inventory these problems.
