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Details: August 06, 2012

CHARLESTON –When all you ever see in the media is the caricature presented by anti-coalextremists, it is easy to miss the great benefits that West Virginia, Kentuckyand Virginia have derived from mountaintop surface mining. When they actually seelook at the sites they soon begin to realize the great potential these siteshave for helping with economic diversification and development across thecoalfields.

Members of the Southern Legislative Conference Energy andEnvironmental Committee got just such an up-close view of surface coal miningduring a special tour of two area surface mines July 31.

The West Virginia Coal Association hosted thelegislators, who hailed from West Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas, Georgia, Virginia,North Carolina and even Canada, visiting the Pritchard Mining Four-Mile mine aswell as the Tyler-Morgan facility near the Kanawha/Fayette border.

Details: July 30, 2012

“Today was a good day for the 63,000 coal mining families of West Virginia. The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton to toss out another key part of the Obama Administration’s on-going war against coal mining in Appalachia is yet more proof that the administration’s regulatory assault is an egregious breach of the Constitutional balance of power between the federal government and the individual states.

“In his decision in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, Walton tossed out the agency’s ‘final guidance’ document with regard to water conductivity standards. Walton said the EPA had ‘overstepped its statutory authority under the Clean Water Act and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act and infringed on the authority afforded state regulators by those statutes.’

Details: July 18, 2012

PINEVILLE, WV– July 19, 2012 – Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE:CLF) (Paris:CLF) announced today a $10,000 contribution to the Volunteer WestVirginia Food Bank Fund. The fund was established after recent damaging stormsand power outages affected most of the state. Storm relief efforts have beencoordinated by West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin’s office and VolunteerWest Virginia.

“Cliffscares about our communities and wants to do our share to assist relief effortsfollowing these devastating storms,” said David Webb, Cliffs’ Senior VicePresident of Global Coal Operations. “Cliffs’ donation will assistorganizations already in place to help those hardest hit and least able to copewith the recent destruction.”

Details: July 11, 2012

The Kanawha Valley Mining Institute 23rd Annual Hatfield Open Golf Outing is sent for Tuesday, September 18, 1012, beginning at 11 a.m. at the Brier Patch Golf Club in Beckley, WV.

To register for this event go to: http://www.kvmi.org/Registration.html

There will be $1,600 in golf prizes for the winners of the golf events, plus chances for additional hole-in-one prizes, as well as numerous door prizes. Every golf participant will receive a special gift.

Details: July 11, 2012

The 2012 Friends of Coal Auto Fair is set for July 20 – 22 at the Beckley YMCA Paul Cline Memorial Sports Center. Saturday Night’s Concert line-up is Ronnie Dunn with special guest James Wesley and is being sponsored by Alpha Natural Resources. For concert tickets, pre-registration for the car show and vendors, please go to: http://www.friendsofcoalautofair.com/

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