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Senators question coal export royalty collection
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In a letter to the Department of Interior on Friday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s new leadership, Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, called for federal regulators to ensure taxpayers receive the full value for coal mined on federal and tribal lands. The senators are specifically concerned that coal companies may be “shortchanging state and federal taxpayers by understating the value of coal mined on federal and tribal la...
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