US EditionTrump is reviving large sales of coal from public lands. Will anyone want it?
The administration is loosening regulations and cutting royalty rates to boost coal production on over 13 million acres, despite coal use falling from 45% to 10% since 2010.
- U.S. officials are set to hold the government's biggest coal sales in over a decade, offering 600 million tons from public reserves.
- Most power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal within 10 years, despite President Trump's efforts to revive the coal industry.
- Burning the coal from the two leases would generate over 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide, worsening climate change.
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President Trump is reviving large sales of coal from public lands. Will anyone want it?
BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. officials in the coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. The sales are a signature piece of President Donald Trump’s ambitions for companies to dig more coal from federal lands and burn it for electricity. Yet most power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal alto…
Trump Coal Boost Gains Momentum as Bids, Land Opened Up - The Thinking Conservative News
Trump administration accelerates coal expansion with new leases, mine permits, and 13.1 million acres of federal land opened for coal mining. The post Trump Coal Boost Gains Momentum as Bids, Land Opened Up appeared first on The Thinking Conservative News.
The U.S. is about to hold the government's biggest coal sales in over a decade even as demand wanes. 'Eventually coal will get pushed out of the market'
“Eventually coal will get pushed out of the market. The economics will just eat the coal generation over time.”
U.S. officials are preparing to make the largest government coal sale in more than a decade in the coming days, offering 600 million tons of public reserves adjacent to open-pit mines in Montana and Wyoming.
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