Mining environment governance and sustainable development of coal industry

The environmental pollution is one of the most challenging fields that people has to be faced with. A series of environmental pollution caused by coal mining are closely related to the sustainable development of coal industry and society. Mining environment includes water environment, surrounding rock environment, stress environment, thermal environment, active faults, etc. In this paper, the environmental issues caused by mining and current research results were analyzed and summarized and several research direction of mining environment were put forward according to our national conditions and the consistent development of the coal industry.