Feds Release Long-Awaited Roadmap for Coal Program Overhaul
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today laid out plans for long-overdue overhaul of the broken federal coal program, including steps to address climate change...
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New Rule Aims to Stop Coal Mining from Poisoning Water
If you rented out your house to friends and they trashed it, damaging walls and breaking the plumbing system, you’d be pretty upset, right? And you’d be...
A Big Day for the Public, Public Lands and Climate
Today is an historic day. The Obama administration announced that it will stop new coal leases on public land until it can conduct a comprehensive review of...
Interior Department and Publicly-Owned Coal: The Listening is Over, Time to Act
Yesterday marked the official close of public comment period on changes that the Department of Interior (Interior) can make to its program for leasing coal on...
Interior Department: Tens of Billions of Tons of Coal Now Available for Lease in West
( Note: June 5--I should have made clear in the original post that the Interior Department is continuing to make this coal available for lease. That is what...
A Critical Month for Climate Change at the Interior Department
It's a critical month for climate change at the Interior Department. On Friday, comments were due on a proposed rule to close a loophole that allows coal...