Fly-In Issue Papers
2009-2024

2024

-- The U.S. Needs A Critical And Strategic Minerals Agency To Improve Minerals Security And Reduce Reliance On Foreign Minerals

--Thermal Coal is Essential for Life. Coal Stands Ready in Times of Extreme Weather

--The U.S. Urgently Needs More Mining Students and Educational Programs to Compete with Chinese Mining Schools

--The Barrasso – Manchin Mining Schools Act of 2023 (S. 912 and H.R. 2685) will Help Train the U.S. Mining Professionals Workforce

--Federal Legislative and Regulatory Hardrock Mining and Federal Lands Issues

--The U. S. Must Plan for Increasing Electricity Demand

--Reliable, Sustainable Energy Starts with Mining in the U.S.

2023

-- About Women's Mining Coalition

-- Reliable, Sustainable Energy Starts with Mining in the U.S.

-- The Barrasso-Manchin Mining Schools Act of 2023 (S.912) will help train the U.S. Mining Professionals Workforce.

-- Federal Land withdrawal actions and propsals inhibit the Nation's ability to achieve the President's energy transition objectives.

-- Meeting the Clean Energy Demand (SME)

-- Families need affordable and reliable electricity

-- The Opportunity of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS)

-- American Mining for America's Infrastructure

-- Coal, A critical resource

2019

-- American Mining for America's Infrastructure and Energy - Hardrock and coal;

-- Domestic minerals provide infrastructure, raw materials and supply chain stability;

-- Critical and Strategic Minerals; Permit Streamlining; BLM, Forest Service; EPA; Congressional Action.

-- Mining Law Bill

-- Import Reliance 1995 - 2018

2018

-- American Mining for America's Infrastructure - Hardrock and coal

-- Critical and Strategic Minerals; Permit Streamlining; BLM, Forest Service; EPA; Congressional Action.

-- Creating Jobs at US mines and at US equipment manufacturers

-- Hardrock Summaries of WMC Positions

2017

-- Support for Coal Mining and Coal Use

-- CERCLA 108(b)

-- Sage Grouse

-- Administration Restores Reasonable Energy Policy

-- Policy Support Important to Advance Coal Technologies

-- Preserve Existing Coal Plants

2016

-- Critical and Strategic Minerals

-- CERCLA 108(b) Financial Assurance

-- Dept. of Interior Regulatory Initiatives for Coal

-- EPA Carbon Regulations & Technology Imperative

-- Sage Grouse

2015

-- Permitting Delays

-- WOTUS - Waters of the U.S.

-- CERCLA 108b Financial Assurance

-- Sage Grouse

-- EPA Regulations Will Inflict Enormous Costs

-- Administration Overreach

-- Coal Graphics

2014

-- Clean Coal Technology and Carbon Capture and Storage

-- Permitting Timeline

-- Section 404 Permits

-- Office of Surface Mining - Stream Buffer Zone Rule

-- Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation Measures

-- WMC Sage Grouse Comments

-- Redefining "Fill Material"

-- CERCLA 108(b) - Stop Duplicative and Costly EPA Financial Assurance Regulation

-- EPA Regulations are Stifling the Economy and Costing Consumers

-- Oppose the "Dirt Tax"

-- National Minerals Policy - Strategic and Critical Minerals

-- Announced Coal Plant Retirements Due to EPA Regulations

-- Proposed "Waters of the U.S." Rule: Critical Concerns

-- Minerals Science and Information Coalition

2013

-- Redefining "Fill Material"

-- CEQ Guidance requiring Federal Agencies to Mitigate Global -- Greenhouse Gases under NEPA

-- Office of Surface Mining Stream Buffer Zone Rule

-- Proposed Dust Rule

-- WMC Urges EPA to consider costs and consequences of regulations

-- WMC Asks Congress to resolve regulatory uncertainty harming coal ash recycling

-- WMC encourages members of Congress to recognize the strength of America's Mineral Endowment

-- National Strategic and Critical Minerals Protection Act (H.R. 761)

-- EPA's Small remote incinerator regulations

-- Greater Sage Grouse Conservation Measures

-- CERCLA 108(b) financial assurance rulemaking;

2012

-- CERCLA 108(b) financial assurance rulemaking;

-- EPA greenhouse gas new source performance standards, and utility MACT (maximum achievable control technology);

-- Critical Minerals Policy Act (S.1113);

-- National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act (H.R. 4402)

-- Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Infrastructure Protection Act (H.R. 3409).

2011

-- USGS Charts - 2009 and 1996 Reliance for Selected Nonfuel Mineral Materials

-- Federal Register Clearance Process for permits.

-- EPA's Regulatory Train Wreck

-- Economic Contributions of Mining

-- What Coal Did Today - Energy Facts

-- EPA Regulation of Greenhouse Gases, an economic train wreck.

-- American Minerals for Alternative Energy - Wind, solar, hybrid cars.

-- Restoring Sanity on the Regulatory Front

-- OSM Stream Protection Rule.

-- Coal Information

2010

-- "Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act" (S.1733).

-- Proposed Tax Increases for Coal Mining.

-- Clean Water Act Amendments

-- Curtail misuse of the Clean Air Act.

-- Employee Free Choice Act

-- Mine Safety

-- Permitting Delays

-- Maintain State Control over State and Local Water Resources.

2009

-- Oppose Expanding Clean Water Act Jurisdiction

-- Coal: America's Power Percent Coal Generation By State

-- Minerals: America's Strength

-- Carbon Capture and Storage

-- Investment in Mineral Development