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Interior’s new coal ruling means little to Wyoming producers
Friday, November 20th, 2009
By Brodie Farquhar of the Wyoming Business Report:
November 18, 2009 —
CASPER — The news that the U.S. Department of Interior intends to dramatically restrict mountain-top removal coal operations back East, shouldn’t get Wyoming citizens too excited (unless your coal company removes mountain tops).Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) announced proposed rulemaking regarding the protection of streams from the adverse impacts of mountain-top removal operations, by overturning a stream buffer zone rule issued by the Bush Administration in December 2008.
