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Oct. 23, 2024

House Committee Advances Bill to Block New Silica Dust Rule

    The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted along party lines on Wednesday, July 10th to advance an appropriations bill for the federal Department of Labor that contains a provision to block any funding to implement the newly-finalized rule to limit miners’ exposure to dangerous silica dust. The appropriations bill, which outlines how the Department […]

Oct. 18, 2024

What is Project 2025?

Project 2025 is a federal policy blueprint for a radical restructuring of the executive branch authored and published by former Trump administration officials in partnership with The Heritage Foundation, a longstanding conservative think tank that led the opposition to the legislation to protect UMWA retiree’s health care and pensions in 2017 and 2019. One of […]

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