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Groups welcomes legislation to toughen bonding and cleanup requirements.

The chamber also cleared fisheries and migratory birds legislation.

The following are news briefs from Wyoming News Exchange newspapers.

Infrastructure funding helps state efforts to fix subsidence, water pollution and stream destruction.

The revamped rule will allow people living near coal mines to more easily bring their complaints to federal regulators.

The federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement has announced changes to its Ten-Day Notice rule poised to make it easier for citizens to report concerns with coal mining operations. Environmental advocates hailed the rule update.

Michael French of Green Forests Work speaks on restoring native, hardwood forests on old coal mines from Alabama to Pennsylvania.

Kentucky citizens’ law group finds 40 percent of state’s active coal strip mines are “functionally abandoned.”

Biden administration cautions Montana against softening coal mine regulations.