Two key mines in Murray Energy’s coal mining operations produce up to 16 million tons each year in Ohio. The company must now find an updated way to store the slurry waste from operations, or it may need to shutter its business. State officials do not want to see the roughly 1000 miners put out of work. Though the company was rejected in 2008 in its waste site application, the new application may go through. It contains a geomembrane-lined slurry reservoir.

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