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A coalition of environment groups sued in May over the action, asking a U.S. court to stop Interior from issuing coal leases until it completes the analysis.
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«My administration is putting an end to the war on coal,» President Donald Trump said March 28, before he signed an executive order that lifted the ban on coal leases on federal land.
About 40 percent of U.S. - produced coal comes from 310 active coal leases managed by BLM.
, who called on the Government Accountability Office to look into the federal coal leasing program in 2012, said, «Leading on climate change means leading by example in how we manage the oil, gas and coal resources that belong to the American people.»
Meanwhile, Trump has also said he would end the moratorium on new federal coal leases, revive the Keystone XL pipeline, and take other actions to promote energy development — all actions that would impact public lands.
Earlier this year, the Obama administration placed a three - year moratorium on federal coal leasing, and closed the entire East Coast and parts of the Arctic Ocean to offshore oil drilling.
He'll have plenty of support: Interior Secretary nominee Ryan Zinke, who would oversee the federal coal leasing program, has a long history of support for coal mining on public lands.
One of the restrictions that could fall early in Trump's presidency is the moratorium the Obama administration placed on coal leasing in early 2016.
The moratorium is part of the Interior Department's three - year study of the impact of the coal leasing program on climate change.
The U.S. temporarily halts coal leasing on federal lands to reassess its policy in light of global warming
Revenues from federal coal leases have generated about $ 1 billion annually in recent years.
But the coal lease bonus money, which has put $ 2.7 billion in Wyoming coffers since 1980, has been dwindling in recent years: In 2013 and 2014, the school construction account received $ 433.4 million in coal lease bonus money.
In addition to building on the Sierra Club's recent successes establishing legal standing to raise climate arguments (1) and telling the agencies that they can not simply ignore the Social Cost of Carbon when weighing the impacts of coal leasing, Judge Jackson squarely rejected the notion that massive coal mines would have no impact on our climate.
Judge Jackson's ruling exposes the bogus economic assumptions underlying nearly all of BLM's coal leasing decisions, and it will help hold BLM accountable for the climate impacts of other decisions on coal and fossil fuel extraction.
And if the impacts to climate are the same no matter what, why deny a coal lease?
A federal appeals court in Denver told the Bureau of Land Management on Friday that its analysis of the climate impacts of four gigantic coal leases was economically «irrational» and needs to be done over.
The court ruling involved new federal coal leases in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana that expanded projects holding some 2 billion tons of coal.
It comes as the Trump administration is moving to reverse actions taken at the end of the Obama administration to review the coal leasing program on climate and economic grounds.
Other programs that provide economic support for coal include federal and state tax breaks, the Rural Utilities Service loan guarantee program, research on new combustion technologies by the Department of Energy, and the Department of the Interior's coal leasing program.
Federal coal leasing accounts for about 40 percent of total U.S. coal production.
Just a month after international climate negotiations in Paris, both China and the United States have announced bold steps to address domestic coal leasing.
The government has suspended new coal leases on federal land.
A moratorium on federal coal leasing effectively hands a pink slip to the thousands of people in Wyoming and across the West employed in coal production.»
After years of hearing from you, the Interior Department will begin a massive overhaul of the federal coal program, including a halt on most new federal coal leasing.
Other important topics related to mining include federal coal leasing, reclamation, and environmental impacts.
During that time, the Interior Department — the part of the administration responsible for the federal leasing program — has put a halt on new federal coal leases, with a few exceptions.
And she listened — in March 2015, she called for an «open and honest conversation to modernize the federal coal leasing program.»
Although coal leases must be auctioned off, in the last twenty years only five out of 27 lease auctions have drawn more than a single bidder.
The Bureau of Land Management, the Interior agency charged with managing coal, is in the process of issuing 16 new coal leases in the Powder River Basin.
Peabody Energy - and other companies - are eyeing a coal field in Mongolia to apply the Powder River Basin model of cheap and abundant coal leasing.
This includes announcing a withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, repealing the Clean Power Plan, rolling back vehicle fuel economy standards, attempting to rescind rules on methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands, ending the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands, and opening additional offshore areas to oil and gas leasing.
Click here for a summary of the pending coal leases.
To do this, we are challenging every single new coal lease and reforming the region's leasing program.
«For years, BLM has been telling the public that its individual coal leasing decisions — even those approving hundreds of millions of tons of coal — have no impact on our climate.
«BLM's federal coal leasing program has a massive impact on our climate and public health, affecting the waters we use, the air we breathe, and the wild areas we enjoy,» said Roger Singer, Senior Organizing Manager with the Sierra Club in Colorado.
Despite promises that uranium, oil, gas, and coal leases would bring in millions of dollars in royalties and create thousands of jobs, a visit to our reservation reveals a completely different reality.
Speak out against coal leasing and climate denial under Trump!
The first was filed in July 2010 over the decision to offer the West Antelope II coal leases for sale.
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.
Despite the link between the Powder River Basin and global warming, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recently proposed to sign off on twelve new coal leases totaling up to 5.7 billion tons of new mining in the region.
The West Antelope II coal leases would lead to the mining of more than 400 million tons of coal in the Powder River Basin.
The Caballo West coal lease is also being sought by Peabody Energy, the self - proclaimed «world's largest private sector coal company.»
The lawsuit, filed by WildEarth Guardians, the Sierra Club, and Defenders of Wildlife, targets decisions by the Bureau of Land Management, an agency of the U.S. Interior Department, to auction off the Belle Ayr North and Caballo West coal lease tracts, which together include almost 352 million tons of coal.
The Bureau of Land Management, which oversees coal leasing and mining in the region, has admitted the region is linked to more than thirteen percent of all carbon dioxide emissions in the United States.
While the recent moratorium on new coal leases on federal land will not directly impact the Colorado Roadless Rule decision, advocates are hopeful it signals that the Obama Administration will use this opportunity to take another stand against coal and climate pollution.
In January 2016 the US Secretary of the Interior announced a moratorium on new coal leasing on public lands pending completion of a comprehensive review.
Last month, the Obama Administration announced that it was stopping new coal leases on federal lands, pending a review of how royalties are calculated.
Oregon Jeff Merkley is joining Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in calling for a halt to new oil, natural gas and coal leases on federal lands and in coastal waters.
In January 2016 the US Secretary of the Interior announced a moratorium on new coal leasing on public lands pending completion of...
«The executive order also demands the Department of the Interior lift its coal leasing moratorium on public lands.