H.R. 5259 would re-establish a federal advisory panel to give states and tribes a greater voice on leasing issues and calls on Interior to complete its programmatic review of the federal coal program by Jan. 15, 2019. (scientificamerican.com)
A new analysis by the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank in Washington, D.C., found that since the inception of clean coal programs aimed at capturing CO2 earlier this decade, $ 3.5 billion has been spent by private companies to develop the technology via 18 projects — just a fraction (1/17) of their profits in 2007 alone, according to researcher Daniel Weiss. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
The Obama administration took a step in the right direction when it announced a major overhaul of the federal coal program in 2016, a change that includes a moratorium on new coal leases on public land. (greenpeace.org)