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WASHINGTON – As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to create good-paying jobs and address legacy pollution harming communities across the nation, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

Frontiers of Freedom, founded in 1995 by U.S. Senator Malcolm Wallop, is an educational foundation whose mission is to promote the principles of individual freedom, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, free markets, and traditional American values as found in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

Attorney General Paxton joined a West Virginia-led cert-stage amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case that has important implications for

Mining companies' fortunes are tied to land reclamation. So the government is helping failing firms continue operating.

In their plea for an investigation, Kentuckians For The Commonwealth provided data showing the proximity of flood-related deaths to strip mined land.

President Jimmy Carter issued a presidential proclamation declaring the week of March 2-8, 1980, as Women’s History Week, stating that “men and women have worked together to build this Nation.”

Congress can protect pensioners and taxpayers by requiring sound administration of pension plans and ensuring the solvency of the PBGC.

Kip Power is a shareholder in the Energy and Natural Resources and Litigation groups of Babst Calland. Mr. Power helps clients comply with environmental laws and defend related litigation.

The locations of the 36 drowning deaths during the catastrophic flooding in eastern Kentucky last summer are closely correlated with large-scale coal strip mines, and a local non-profit is calling on the DOI to investigate further.

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth asks the federal government to investigate how surface coal mining in Eastern Kentucky exacerbated deadly flooding.