December 23, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in a victory for coal mining communities and clean water advocates across the country, Congress passed the Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines (STREAM) Act as part of the fiscal 2023 omnibus spending bill, ensuring communities can use billions of dollars in new money for abandoned coal mine cleanup to address the ongoing acid mine drainage crisis, as well as mine fires and subsidence issues.