Benjamin C. Greene

Benjamin Carroll Green started his career as one of the first two inspectors of the Department of Natural Resources to regulate surface coal mining. He later became the president of the West Virginia Mining and Reclamation Association. For 40 years, Ben has been deeply involved with virtually every aspect of reclamation, both from the regulatory and the industry perspective. He is a past president of the National Association of State Land Reclamations and a former member of the West Virginia Reclamation Commission, the West Virginia Soil and Water Research Laboratory Advisory Committee and the West Virginia Geological Hazards Advisory Committee. Greene was a founding member of the American Society for Surface Mining and Reclamation and also served on the West Virginia Surface Mine Drainage Task Force. He was a member of the Soil Conservation Society of America, the SCS Task Force on Surface Mine Reclamation, and West Virginia RAMP Reclamation Committee, the Advisory Council of the National Mine Land Reclamation Center, the West Virginia Stream Restoration Committee and the Board of Directors of the Peters Creek Coal Association. Through his long career as president of the West Virginia Mining and Reclamation Association, Ben served 23 chairmen, shepherding the industry through the transition to federal regulation and the stream of litigation.