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(Casper Star Tribune, January 17) – Mine closures are unlikely as a result of the Obama administration’s decision to temporarily halt new coal leases on federal land. Companies are not expected to need access to new reserves within the three years the Interior Department estimates it will take to complete a study of the federal coal […]

(Associated Press, August 14) – Wyoming brought out the big guns for a hearing Thursday in Gillette on whether to charge coal companies more to mine on federal lands. Gov. Matt Mead and all three members of the state’s congressional delegation testified that the federal government is crippling the coal industry through environmental regulations. “There isn’t […]

(Gillette News Record, August 14) – A loud, defiant voice rose from the Energy Capital of the Nation on Thursday afternoon with a simple message for Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell: Don’t burn the nation’s coal industry. Jewell has called for “an honest and open conversation” about updating the federal coal lease program amid claims […]

(E&E Publishing, January 14) – The GOP chairwoman of a new House watchdog subpanel will use her perch to target the Obama administration’s climate, air pollution and public lands policies. Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) was recently handed control of a new Interior Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee that is charged with oversight of […]