The requirements for reclamation are unclear and there isn't enough money available to do the reclamation. If these companies fail as a lot of them do that difference is going to have to be borne by somebody else. Are companies willing to at least try? Companies often don't want to do the cleanup. It's hard, it's expensive, it takes a long time, it takes equipment away from the profitable activity of actually mining coal.

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