States are crying foul over the Obama administration’s latest attempt to regulate the coal industry, demanding that new water rules be scrapped and re-proposed on the grounds of sound science.

The coal industry is flagging a letter sent to the Department of Interior’s office of surface mining earlier this month by a state official who says the agency is making it impossible for states to understand the rule by blocking their access to hundreds of key documents.

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