Coal Industry Tells “Listening Session” How to Improve Returns to Taxpayers Washington, D.C. – If the Department of the Interior is truly listening for the best way to maximize revenue to taxpayers from the federal coal lease program, it will lower the cost of mining federal coal. That’s the message... Read More

Washington, D.C. – The stream buffer zone regulation unveiled today by the Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation Enforcement (OSM) is the latest in a series of costly and unnecessary regulations from an administration that appears determined to destroy coal mining communities. The National Mining... Read More

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

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn said the Supreme Court’s decision today in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA vindicates growing demands for common sense rulemaking from the Environmental Protection Agency: “Today’s decision by the Supreme Court is a vindication... Read More