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A landowners group voiced objections to Eagle Specialty Materials, LLC s Eagle Butte mine application for a five-year permit renewal. The Powder River Basin Resource Council raised concerns in a requested informal conference regarding the company s reclamation ability, legal right to mine, and connection to violations. These all stack up to be fairly concerning issues that [the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality] should address and we hope that you will address in order to try and avoid a more serious problem in the future, said Jill Morrison, executive director of the Powder River Basin Resource Council.
The DEQ held the informal conference in order to help its director Todd Parfitt make a decision regarding the five-year permit renewal application of Eagle Butte.
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By Jennifer Kocher and Mark Christensen, County 17
New Campbell County Attorney Mitch Damsky is making good on his promise to look into some of the more nefarious dealings by out-of-state coal companies, setting his sights first on former Blackjewel CEO Jeff Hoops.
On top of leaving the county on the hook for $16 million in ad valorem taxes after the company’s bankruptcy in 2019 that exposed the tangled – and alleged deceitful – underpinnings of his fossil fuel empire traversing 32 mines, several states and an undisclosed number of shell companies, Damsky said that Hoops left a lot of ruined lives in his wake as he and his family profited handsomely.
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