National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn issued the following comments today highlighting the association’s response to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs’ request for examples of existing and proposed regulations whose costs exceed anticipated benefits,... Read More

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn urged prompt passage of Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield’s (R-Ky.) “Ratepayer Protection Act,” pending before the House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee, which would place ultimate responsibility for state... Read More

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn released the following statement on this week’s publication of the final report on the reliability of the nation’s power grid by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC), the international regulatory authority established to evaluate... Read More

The following statement was released today by National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn applauding the introduction of Rep. Mark Amodei’s (R-Nev.) "National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2015”: "Congressman Amodei’s bill, introduced in the House today, will... Read More

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn today issued the following statement on the escalating impacts on households and manufacturers of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics (MATS) regulation, effective today, and the agency’s pending “Clean Power... Read More

Washington, D.C. — This week, two co-equal branches of our government − Congress and the courts − will be eyeing administration policies sure to increase energy costs and separate more Americans from their jobs. Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power... Read More

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn commented as follows on reports that the Bloomberg Foundation will donate an additional $30 million to the Sierra Club’s campaign to shut down affordable sources of electricity generation: “The Sierra Club today may thank the Bloomberg... Read More