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Coal Authority business plan 2022 to 2025

How we will build on the innovation, applied research and action of the past few years to deliver further opportunity and value.

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Our business plan for 2022 to 2025, which explains our priorities for our core work including:

  • emergency response for subsidence and hazards
  • preventing mine water from polluting drinking water, rivers or the sea
  • providing information and reports to help homeowners, infrastructure providers and others make informed decisions

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The Coal Authority exists to manage the legacy from Great Britain’s coal mining past. So much of our 3 nation’s history has been shaped by the natural minerals under our soil.

None more than coal, which has provided heat, steam and power for hundreds and hundreds of years. Coal was nationalised in 1947, which is why the UK Government own the majority of underground workings and remaining coal reserves under England, Scotland and Wales, along with the responsibility for many of the associated challenges and hazards.

As domestic coal mining has reduced, and humanity recognises the impacts of burning carbon on our climate, we are seeking alternative ways to maximise low carbon opportunities from closed and abandoned mines such as mine water heat networks.

These can provide heat for homes and businesses, while also delivering net zero carbon and levelling up outcomes for communities whose identity was built from coal and who could now benefit from low carbon, social and economic benefits from the warm water in the historic mining assets.

We work with partners, communities and customers to listen, learn and take practical action to support them to create safer, cleaner and greener communities.

We are a 24/7 emergency response organisation, with staff across Great Britain ready to respond and take action to keep people safe and provide peace of mind.

Extensive coalfields exist across Great Britain and it is estimated that 25% of homes and businesses across Great Britain are located above former coal mines.

The vast majority of people will never experience any problems from that, but for those who do we are here to provide support and expertise.

The Coal Authority is a non-departmental public body and partner organisation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

The Rt Hon Greg Hands MP, Minister of State (Minister for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change) and sponsoring minister for the Coal Authority, says:

The Coal Authority undertake vital work to keep people, drinking water and the environment safe from the legacy impacts of our mining heritage. At the same time, they work innovatively with people across the public and private sectors to seek opportunity, such as mine water heating, which will deliver low carbon, economic and social benefit to communities across the coalfield and help them to level up.

We are delighted to share with you our business plan, which explains our priorities for our core work including:

It shows how we will build on the innovation, applied research and action of the past few years to deliver further opportunity and value, and focuses on how we will work and continue to improve our service to our customers.

Our previous plan was written to last from 2018 to 2023, but the board decided to progress our new plan earlier for a number of reasons:

Read about our progress against our previous business plan and find out more in our annual reports and accounts for that period.

This new plan is set in the context of a 10 year vision, which has helped us to focus our thinking in the longer term – particularly in our response to the climate crisis and to support the net zero carbon ambitions of the 3 nations’ governments that we serve. Read more about our vision for 2032.

The plan itself runs for 3 years from April 2022 until March 2025 – reflecting the current Spending Review period and also recognising the increased pace of change that we have all seen.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, for example, has both imposed and enabled change for individuals and families, in society and the workplace.

Working towards our 10 year vision in 3 or 4 year bites will allow us to adapt as needed to deliver the most we can for the communities we serve.

Our 2022 to 2025 plan is both ambitious and enabling. Ambitious in aspiration and practical delivery of core work, and innovative and enabling by ensuring that while delivering we also put in place frameworks, research and development that will allow us to understand the complex challenges and opportunities we face more clearly.

This will allow us to put in place the steps necessary to allow us to accelerate towards the ambitions in our 10 year vision over the course of the next 2 business plan periods that take us to 2032.

This will include the more complex aspects of our net zero and sustainability commitments, partnering with public organisations and private sector companies to accelerate the uptake of mine water heating and maximising the benefit from our information, records and archives.

None of what we aim to achieve would be possible without the dedication, commitment and passion of the people of the Coal Authority who work with our customers and partners 24/7 as needed to help protect life, drinking water and the environment from the challenges of Great Britain’s mining legacy.

It is their commitment to improving and innovating that has helped us to be efficient, to deliver creative and bespoke solutions to complex problems caused by coal mining hazards and to develop new opportunities from historic mining assets and wastes. You can see more in our colleague case studies.

We know that we can only achieve our mission of making a better future for people and the environment in mining areas by continuing to listen and learn.

We invite you to help, to hold us to account and to challenge where you think we can do better.

Our mission, purpose and values were developed with our colleagues and input from partners and adopted by the board in April 2019.

These were revisited as part of our vision and business plan development and the board agreed that they remain relevant and at the heart of our work and approach.

Making a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.

We are mindful of the continued ageing of the historical coal assets we manage, the increasing need for low carbon opportunities and innovation and that things we are currently unaware of that will undoubtedly appear, increase in relevance or change through the dynamic times ahead.

By 2032 we will have made real progress in reducing our carbon footprint and achieved our ambition of becoming net zero by 2030. We will be ready to go beyond that, maximising the use of socially sustainable renewables on our sites, increasing habitat and space for nature and reducing waste wherever possible.

We will have worked with others to make strides in understanding and acting on the impacts of climate change adaptation to continually better understand the impacts of extreme weather on ground stability, drainage, risk and potential impacts in mining areas. Clear research, evidence and understanding will help us to make any changes needed to our approaches and influence the funding required to implement them.

We will keep working with partners to use our expertise and skills to reduce the impacts of other types of mining and things beyond our direct remit, building on the work we have done with Welsh government on tip safety and with other UK government departments to reduce pollution from metal mines.

We will better connect people to their mining history through the provision of information and by making more available the records, pictures and heritage we hold as cost-effectively as possible. We recognise that the past shapes our 3 nations’ histories and we will work with mining museums and other partners to bring this alive and better tell the story from past to future. We will do this even when it is hard, acknowledging the mistakes of the past and using this learning to do better.

We will be a more diverse, representative and actively anti-racist organisation that also recognises the importance of levelling up, social mobility and the identities of the coal mining communities in which we have our roots.

Underpinning all this will be our people, systems and ways of working. We will embrace the opportunity of new technology and continued digital transformation to provide better, more accessible customer service, improved monitoring and operational delivery, make our information easier to connect and engage with and release efficiencies.

We will measure progress in social and environmental terms alongside financial aspects of reporting.

We will work with the UK government to recognise these ambitions, changes and the further evolution of our work through refreshed legislation, which is fit for the future. We will also seek a change to our name which better reflects the nature of our work and ensures we can keep recruiting talented people and are able to work effectively with environmental and innovative partners in the long term.

You can find more information in our annual reports and accounts for that period.

We are committed to doing this in a customer and community focused way. We act with integrity, do what we say we will and listen and learn so that we can continually improve.

We have made significant progress on this through our previous business plan.

Here is one example of this:

on 25 September 2021, a serious subsidence incident involving 8 flats was reported in Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland

we worked closely with the local council to provide direct support to the residents evacuated from their properties

we continue to proactively engage with the local community to provide reassurance to keep them informed about the remediation works

Since our creation in 1994, we have had a strong focus on technical expertise, professionalism and delivery to solve the more routine and complex problems we face in relation to our mining legacy.

We will actively promote who we are and what we do in coalfield areas so that communities know when and how to contact us and be confident that we will provide timely information, expertise and support whenever it is needed.

To support this we will strengthen existing relationships with local partners and stakeholders and look to identify further joint working opportunities to deliver better outcomes.

We recognise that all customers are individuals and so our customer processes will consider individual circumstances and changing needs. We will seek feedback from residents, local partners and wider stakeholders on our services to help us to continually learn and improve.

Underpinning all this is our commitment to provide effective and empathetic incident and emergency response and to deliver our core work to protect life, drinking water and the environment.

We will improve our frontline delivery services for our customers so that we deliver more outcomes and are easier to do business with.

By April 2025 we will:

This will be underpinned by work to:

More detailed plans underpin this theme. Read more about our customer standards and read more about our customer strategy.

We are committed to becoming a more sustainable organisation, and want to use our work to help deliver positive change in the communities we support. This includes real consideration of environmental and social sustainability and factoring this thinking into our decision making and reporting.

To do this we will work with others, sharing learning and taking practical action to move towards our ambition to be a net zero organisation by 2030 as has been committed to by our board.

We will continue taking action to decarbonise our activities and maximise natural carbon sequestration at our sites. We will also take action to support nature recovery by managing our sites and estate in the best way possible and to take a circular approach to our work, minimising waste and the use of natural resources.

Over the course of the previous business plan we have taken action to increase self-generation of renewables from our sites and consider environmental benefit through our management.

In the next 3 years we will increase the pace of change so that we can make clear, measurable progress towards decarbonisation, using our estate to help nature recovery, increase access to our sites and consider social benefit in our thinking and decision making.

We will minimise resource use, retain materials within the value chain and support local economies through our procurement practices.

The majority of this will be done through undertaking our core work more smartly and maximising multiple outcomes wherever possible.

We will also use this period to identify and quantify even more challenging areas – for example uncontrolled fugitive emissions from abandoned mines and indirect emissions generated from the small number of active mining licences.

We will take action while also using these 3 years in an enabling way – undertaking further research and development to support our net zero ambitions and benchmarking the habitats and biodiversity across our estate, to inform how our sites can be improved for nature and provide nature-based solutions.

We will learn more about the impacts of climate change on our mine assets and estate, so that we can develop and implement plans for cost-effective climate change risk management and adaptation, and be ready to respond to an increased number and/or higher impact incidents. We will work with communities, partners and fellow emergency response organisations to be even more prepared.

We will evolve our decision making and reporting to more clearly demonstrate our environmental, social and other impacts, challenges and benefits alongside financial aspects. We will take a transparent approach to show our progress and challenges.

We will make further clear progress on our journey to achieve net zero carbon by 2030 and to deliver wider environmental and social aspects of sustainability.

Value creation (financial, environmental and social) is key to our thinking and we are constantly looking for new innovations and efficiency to deliver better outcomes, new opportunities and/or savings for the taxpayer.

We are passionate about mining communities both on the coalfield and beyond and use our information, skills and expertise to give confidence to those who live and work in these areas.

We hold unique knowledge, assets and data, but recognise that we don’t have all the skills or direct influence needed to maximise the value we can generate.

Our experience over the past few years shows that working with both public and private sector partners on joint projects benefits both parties and can provide better and faster outcomes.

We will build on that model as we bring data, products and services to market and develop new initiatives, ensuring we are always customer-focused and easy to work with.

Over the course of the previous business plan we have focused our broad innovation programme of ideas into a smaller number of purposeful projects. In the next 3 years we will work to make more of these a reality and to scale up successful projects we have already delivered.

We will continue to seek to deliver value beyond our remit by supporting the delivery of key government priorities across England, Scotland and Wales such as net zero carbon, levelling up, climate justice and equity for future generations.

Mine water heat is our most exciting opportunity, with the potential to provide stable priced, low carbon and Great British generated heat for homes, businesses, industry and agriculture. With the first English scheme online and at least one more scheme going ‘spade in the ground’ this year, we have seen significant media and political interest, and have a pipeline of potential projects.

To scale this up faster we will need to work with governments and with public and private sector partners. We will also develop and raise awareness of wider mine water opportunities including cooling and heat storage from other green energy sources such as wind power.

We will build on our understanding of the by-products that we create to open new markets and significantly reduce the need for any of the material that we produce to go to landfill.

We will also continue to work with lending institutions, surveyors and solicitors about our work and role to ensure they are aware of what we do, so that we can continue to give confidence to all those involved with buying and selling homes, land and property in coalfield areas.

All of this will be underpinned by continued research and development (R&D) and working with universities and partner organisations, to better inform our work and enable us to make decisions underpinned with science and evidence, to give confidence to our clients and customers.

We will generate more value and deliver wider environmental and social benefit from our assets, services and work.

Great people are at the heart of what we do – we can only deliver the important work we do to keep people safe, protect the environment and maximise opportunity if we can attract, recruit and retain them.

To do that we have to be a truly ‘great place to work’ that attracts diverse talent across all parts of Great Britain and helps them to feel valued and respected with the opportunity to grow and develop.

We want to be an employer of choice that is vibrant, dynamic and modern and promotes an inclusive, wellbeing-centred culture underpinned by our values.

We have already made good progress on these ambitions. Our original Great Place To Work plan was developed and launched in 2018 with a 5 year action plan to create a sustainable, skilled and developed, more diverse and motivated workplace that better enabled us to deliver for the customers and communities that we serve.

Our first Great Place To Work plan has helped us to create a more people-focused environment with wellbeing, inclusion and our values at the heart of how we do our work.

Over the next 3 years we will build further on this, focusing our effort in 4 key areas:

We will be an employer of choice where our people feel they can belong. We will have an inclusive culture with a strong focus on wellbeing, learning and development. We take pride in delivering important work for the communities we serve and live our values.

More detailed plans that underpin this theme. Read more about our equality, diversity and inclusion plan and read more about our anti-racism plan.

Our plan is ambitious and we need to enable it through effective and customer-focused systems and approaches, which support our priorities efficiently and well.

Our information, combined with our people’s deep understanding of the risks and opportunities that past mining presents, sits at the centre of everything we do.

We hold authoritative data on more than 170,000 mine entries along with surface and underground mine workings that sit beneath approximately 25% of all properties in Great Britain.

This data is updated daily from information fed in from our day to day work in mining areas. It underpins all our work and produces approximately 200,000 mining reports annually. This is crucial to our work and can support the work of our partners.

Through this period we will continue to update and modernise it for new purposes, and continue to update the supporting IT infrastructure that underpins it and other systems.

We have already begun to migrate our systems to a cloud platform to provide increased resilience and flexibility. We have taken learning from the COVID-19 pandemic and recognise that future systems need to make it easy for colleagues to deliver services and collaborate with each other, our supply chain and our partners whether in the field, at home or in the office.

All of our supporting teams play a critical role in enabling frontline delivery and incident response – whether they are warning and informing local communities; ensuring simple finance systems, that mean a family can be evacuated from a subsiding house at a weekend; or ensuring that we procure services effectively and manage our programmes in the most efficient way to make the most of every pound we spend.

Over the next 3 years we will make it easier for them to do their work in supporting the frontline communities we serve.

Over the next 3 years we will build on the progress made since 2018 by ensuring that we are fit for the future, focusing our effort in 4 key areas:

A more detailed plan that underpin this theme, Our Data and Information Plan, is due to be published in June 2023.

Mathura, project manager in the environment projects delivery team and co-chair of our race equality network, shared with us what changes she has seen since she started working for us:

Julia, executive assistant to the community and emergency response director, shares how the Coal Authority is evolving:

Sean, web developer, shares his pride at being a member of the Coal Authority:

Alicia, from our project management office, shares what inspires her about the Coal Authority:

Darren, head of tips response, shared with us what he most wants to achieve out of his role:

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Supreme Court seems skeptical of EPA’s ‘good neighbor’ rule on power plant pollution

FILE - Emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets, near Emmett, Kan., Sept. 18, 2021. The Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed skeptical Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, as a government lawyer argued that the Environmental Protection Agency should be allowed to continue enforcing its anti-air-pollution "good neighbor'' rule. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

FILE - Emissions rise from the smokestacks at the Jeffrey Energy Center coal power plant as the suns sets, near Emmett, Kan., Sept. 18, 2021. The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed skeptical Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, as a government lawyer argued that the Environmental Protection Agency should be allowed to continue enforcing its anti-air-pollution “good neighbor’’ rule. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed skeptical Wednesday as the Environmental Protection Agency sought to continue enforcing an anti-air-pollution rule in 11 states while separate legal challenges proceed around the country.

The EPA’s “good neighbor” rule is intended to restrict smokestack emissions from power plants and other industrial sources that burden downwind areas with smog-causing pollution.

Three energy-producing states — Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia — challenged the rule, along with the steel industry and other groups, calling it costly and ineffective. The rule is on hold in a dozen states because of the court challenges.

The Supreme Court, with a 6-3 conservative majority, has increasingly reined in the powers of federal agencies, including the EPA, in recent years. The justices have restricted EPA’s authority to fight air and water pollution — including a landmark 2022 ruling that limited EPA’s authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that contribute to global warming. The court also shot down a vaccine mandate and blocked President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program.

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The court is currently weighing whether to overturn its 40-year-old Chevron decision , which has been the basis for upholding a wide range of regulations on public health, workplace safety and consumer protections.

A lawyer for the EPA said the “good neighbor” rule was important to protect downwind states that receive unwanted air pollution from other states. Besides the potential health impacts, the states face their own federal deadlines to ensure clean air, said Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Malcolm Stewart, representing the EPA.

States such as Wisconsin, New York and Connecticut can struggle to meet federal standards and reduce harmful levels of ozone because of pollution from power plants, cement kilns and natural gas pipelines that drift across their borders.

Judith Vale, New York’s deputy solicitor general, said as much as 65% of some states’ smog pollution comes from out of state.

The EPA plan was intended to provide a national solution to the problem of ozone pollution, but challengers said it relied on the assumption that all 23 states targeted by the rule would participate.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh seemed sympathetic to that argument, saying the EPA plan could impose unreasonable costs on states that remain under its authority, because it was initially designed for 23 states.

“EPA came back and said, ‘Even if we have fewer states, we’re going to plow ahead anyway,’'' Kavanaugh said. “Let’s just kind of pretend nothing happened and just go ahead with the 11 states.’'

The EPA proceeded “without a whole lot of explanation, and nobody got a chance to comment on that” as part of the rule-making process, added Justice Neil Gorsuch.

“What (states) are asking for is simply an opportunity to make the argument before the agency,″ said Chief Justice John Roberts.

Stewart responded that requirements for states to control air pollution don’t change based on the number of states subject to the rule. “The requirements are exactly the same,’' he said.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson questioned why the Supreme Court was hearing the case before the other legal challenges were completed. A lawyer for industry groups challenging the rule said it imposes significant and immediate costs that could affect the reliability of the electric grid.

“There are hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars, in costs over the next 12 to 18 months,’' with only a small reduction in air pollution and no guarantee the final rule will be upheld, said industry lawyer Catherine Stetson. “There are over-control issues here,’' she said.

The EPA has said power-plant emissions dropped by 18% in 2023 in the 10 states where it has been allowed to enforce its rule, which was finalized last March . Those states are Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin. In California, limits on emissions from industrial sources other than power plants are supposed to take effect in 2026.

The rule is on hold in another dozen states because of separate legal challenges. The states are Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.

States that contribute to ground-level ozone, or smog, are required to submit plans ensuring that coal-fired power plants and other industrial sites don’t add significantly to air pollution in other states. In cases where a state has not submitted a “good neighbor” plan — or where EPA disapproves a state plan — the federal plan was supposed to ensure that downwind states are protected.

Ground-level ozone, which forms when industrial pollutants chemically react in the presence of sunlight, can cause respiratory problems, including asthma and chronic bronchitis. People with compromised immune systems, the elderly and children playing outdoors are particularly vulnerable.

Environmental and public health advocates have praised the EPA plan as a life-saving measure for people who live hundreds of miles away from power plants, cement factories, steel mills and other industrial polluters.

Industry groups criticize it as having an anti-coal bias that would drive up the cost of electricity.

Associated Press writer Mark Sherman contributed to this story.

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