FILE - This Sept. 6, 2019, file photo, shows the Eagle Butte mine just north of Gillette, Wyo. A Wyoming legislative committee has endorsed two bills to help workers recover wages from bankrupt coal companies, but not one that would allow the state to sue on their behalf. Many furloughed employees of Blackjewel in Wyoming didn't file to recover unpaid wages when the West Virginia-based company filed for bankruptcy in 2019. The workers worried they wouldn't be offered their jobs back at the Eagle Butte and Belle Ayr mines and other company facilities in Wyoming if they filed claims. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)