Coal Mine

The Department of the Interior is granting $74 million to Kentucky to help clean pollution near Kentucky’s coal communities.

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House Bill 85 would set the minimum number of working mine emergency technicians (METs) or medical staff to one per shift, if ten or less miners are working.

It’s part of a larger plan to create a 20-acre complex along Kentucky Highway 292. That will include a distillery, rickhouse, welcome center, museum and restaurant. Lodging and tours of the rehabilitated mine are planned for the future.

Devin Mefford is sitting in the squat metal buggy of a modified mantrip, the train-like shuttle coal miners use to travel underground. Mefford is dressed…