Using its corporate coffers and its PAC, coal company Murray Energy donated $1.5 million to candidates, party committees and outside groups in 2016
Source: Murray Energy bucks coal mining trend with record giving in 2016
President Donald Trump wasted little time attending to one of his constituencies: Less than a month after taking office, and surrounded by applauding coal miners and a few friendly members of Congress, he put the knife in an Obama-era regulation barring coal mine waste from being dumped in waterways…. read more by Ashley Balcerzak
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