Las Vegas, Nev. – The National Mining Association’s (NMA) board of directors today elected a slate of officers and directors for the two-year term 2013-2014. The action came at the association’s Board and Annual Meeting of Members held in Las Vegas, Nev. in advance of the opening tomorrow of MINExpo... Read More

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn and Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) Executive Director David Kanagy today jointly announced the availability of a new tool to aid hardrock mining operations with managing environmental performance. The Hardrock Mining... Read More

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn issued the following statement today as the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to consider H.R. 3409, “The Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act”: “Mining communities and the families and businesses... Read More

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn issued the following statement in response to today’s federal appeals court ruling that vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Cross State Air Pollution Rule on power plants: "In striking down a costly EPA rule for power... Read More

Washington, D.C. – Chief executives of four of the world’s biggest mining and mining equipment companies will discuss "The global supply chain for coal and minerals, where we have been and where we are going," on Sept. 24 at MINExpo INTERNATIONAL® 2012, the National Mining Association’s (NMA) quadrennial... Read More

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn released the following statement in response to the decision today by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in National Mining Association v. Lisa Jackson: "NMA is gratified by today’s decision in NMA v. Jackson... Read More

The following statement was released today by National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn upon passage by the U.S. House of Representatives of the "National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act" (H.R. 4402): "The ’National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production... Read More

National Mining Association (NMA) President and CEO Hal Quinn issued the following statement today following the defeat (46-53) of Sen. James Inhofe’s (R-Okla.) resolution (S.J. Res. 37) to block implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Utility MACT rule: "Today’s regrettable vote... Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed New Source Performance Standard (NSPS) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new electric generating sources "is not designed to improve environmental performance... and will bar the construction of new, more-efficient coal plants that would... Read More

Washington, D.C. - In testimony today before the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, National Mining Association (NMA) President & CEO Hal Quinn urged strong congressional support for the "Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2012" (H.R. 4402), sponsored by Rep. Mark... Read More