PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE: House Passes Bills Aimed at Cleaning Up Abandoned Mine Lands

ACLC’S Coordinator of Policy and Organizing, Rebecca Shelton, was recently quoted about the RECLAIM Act passing through the U.S. House of Representatives:

“There have been coalitions and organizations that have been thinking for a long time about how do we build a new economy in these regions now that the coal industry has continued to decline, and that’s more important that ever before,” she said. “And these bills would be a small piece but a very important piece of that work.”

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