Washington DC -May 5- U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, released the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule for coal combustion waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).

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Washington DC - April 13 - The Mine Safety and Health Administration has announced the publication of a final rule in the Federal Register revising requirements that MSHA and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health use to approve sampling devices for monitoring miner exposure to respirable coal mine dust.

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Washington DC - April 12 - President Barack Obama spoke on the loss of life in the recent Upper Big Branch Mine tragedy and measures to ensure safe conditions in the mining industry preventing future mining disasters.

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Washington DC - April 6 - Rescue efforts for four missing miners have been suspended in a West Virginia coal mine with only slim hopes for their survival after an explosion left 25 others dead in one of the worst mining disasters in decades, as reported in The Washington Post.

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Washington DC - April 2 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a set of actions to further clarify and strengthen environmental permitting requirements for Appalachian mountaintop removal and other surface coal mining projects, in coordination with federal and state regulatory agencies.

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Washington DC - March 30 - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced $37.5 million in U.S. funding over the next five years to support the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center, which will focus on advancing technologies for building energy efficiency, clean coal including carbon capture and storage, and clean vehicles.

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Washington DC - February 5 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released action plans developed by 22 electric utility facilities with coal ash impoundments, describing the measures the facilities are taking to make their impoundments safer.

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Washington DC - February 4 - President Barack Obama announced a series of steps his Administration is taking, boosting biofuels production and reducing dangerous dependence on foreign oil, as part of its comprehensive strategy building a foundation for a new clean energy economy.

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Washington DC - January 12 - A new study published by Dr. Margaret Palmer and several of the nation’s leading river scientists details in no uncertain terms, the harmful and unavoidable affects of mountaintop mining on rivers, streams, and freshwater resources.

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Washington DC - January 6 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a path forward on two mountaintop coal mining operations in West Virginia.

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Washington DC - January 5 - Preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) just released indicate that mine fatalities in 2009 fell to an all-time low for the second straight year.

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Washington DC - December 31 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken a significant step in an effort to help reduce the need for federal taxpayers to fund the cleanup of environmental releases, identifying three additional industry sectors for which it will begin the regulatory development process for any necessary financial assurance requirements.

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Washington DC - December 22 - No new coal plants broke ground in 2009, a result of a combination of widespread public opposition, rising costs, increasing financial risks and concerns over future carbon regulations.

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Washington DC - December 7 - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the selection of three new projects with a value of $3.18 billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale.

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Washington DC - December 2 - The U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), along with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), will hold the first in a series of regional one-day workshops focusing on the prevention of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP) and other lung diseases, commonly referred to as “black lung.”

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