Today's hearing continues a more than two-year effort by the Committee Majority to stop the Office of Surface Mining from protecting Appalachian streams and communities from destructive mountaintop removal mining.
Jared Huffman: “Today's hearing continues a more than two-year effort by the Committee Majority to stop the Office of Surface Mining…”
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Describes ongoing efforts to undermine protections against harmful mining practices.
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