Author: Bobby Hughes

Bobby Hughes is the Executive Director for EPCAMR since the inception of the organization in 1997. For more information please visit his biography page.

Without McConnell, Hope Dimming for Mine Cleanup Bill

Brian Willis | Deputy Press Secretary for Federal Affairs Sierra Club | 50 F Street, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20001 p: 202.675.2386 | c: 202.253.7486 | e: brian.willis@sierraclub.org Dec. 7 — Hope has dimmed for a mine cleanup bill that environmental activists have pushed hard for. Two factors are dooming the Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by…

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Register Your AMD Project for PA Environmental Good Samaritan Act Volunteer Protection Today!!

Anne Daymut, WPCAMR, and Robert Hughes, EPCAMR In 1999, along with Growing Greener, Pennsylvania signed into law the Environmental Good Samaritan Act (EGSA).  This law is intended to encourage landowners and others to undertake projects to reclaim abandoned mineral extraction lands and abate water pollution caused by abandoned mines and…

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