A Senate panel will this week weigh a number of largely Republican-led forestry, wildfire and mining bills, including language that would throw a lifeline to a stymied coal mining project in the West.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining will take testimony Wednesday on 20 bills that touch on everything from public lands management to minerals.
That includes two measures that Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines is pushing to ensure a coal mining project in his home state can move forward.
Daines in recent weeks has floated S. 4431, the “Crow Revenue Act,” to set in motion a federal land swap that would allow Signal Peak Energy to expand coal operations in the Bull Mountains north of Billings.
