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Black History Month observances to take place in Wilkes-Barre, Nanticoke

<p>CANONSBURG, Pa. (AP) &#8212; A coal company has laid off 200 miners in Pennsylvania because of a state environmental ruling that limits mining beneath a park creek in western Pennsylvania.</p><p>CNX Coal Resources, a spinoff of Consol Energy, issued the temporary layoff notices Tuesday at its Bailey Mine complex.</p><p>The company is contesting last month&#8217;s ruling by the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board restricting mining within 100 feet of Kent Run, a stream in Ryerson Station State Park.</p><p>The companies say the stream buffer would mean leaving 360,000 tons of coal worth more than $15 million in the ground.</p><p>The state Department of Environmental Resources sued Consol claiming longwall mining caused a dam at Ryerson to leak, forcing the agency to drain Duke Lake in 2005. The parties settled in 2013.</p><style>
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Coal company lays off 200 miners in Pennsylvania over environmental ruling