Cleanup costs have soared, partly due to larger surface mines that blew up or chopped off entire mountaintops, and partly because modern studies have increasingly identified water pollutants requiring lengthy and expensive treatment.

Source: https://grist.org/accountability/how-bankruptcy-helps-the-coal-industry-avoid-environmental-liability/

It was, and in many ways remains, a place of magnificent crystalline rivers, endless, foamy waterfalls, jagged mountaintops and, just now, chromatic meadows of blooming wildflowers.

Source: https://m.startribune.com/grizzly-bear-attack-glacier-national-park-service-minnesota-dennis-anderson/600294877/