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Acid Coal Mine Drainage Cleanup Could Have Adverse Environmental Effect

Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Efforts to clean up the streams in Pennsylvania that are polluted by old mines could have the downstream effect of causing more phosphorous to be released into the Chesapeake Bay. In our weekly series with the Bay Journal Delmarva Public Media's Don Rush talks with editor-in-chief Karl Blankenship about the potential problems.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.