In the Northwest, Puget Sound Energy has built early - exit provisions into
its proposed coal contract for the Colstrip plant in Montana, a town that is feeling the pangs of coal's decline.
The meeting is to discuss
proposed changes to MSHA rules to lower acceptable levels of respirable dust in mines to reduce the risk of workers
contracting potentially fatal
Coal Workers» Pneumoconiosis - also known as black lung disease - and other diseases.