Sentences with phrase «west coal lease»
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.
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The Caballo West coal lease is also being sought by Peabody Energy, the self - proclaimed «world's largest private sector coal company.»
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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.»
The Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service had authorized the leasing of 10.1 million tons of coal under 1,700 acres of the Sunset Roadless Area in order to expand Arch Coal's West Elk Coal Mcoal under 1,700 acres of the Sunset Roadless Area in order to expand Arch Coal's West Elk Coal MCoal's West Elk Coal MCoal Mine.
The first was filed in July 2010 over the decision to offer the West Antelope II coal leases for sale.
The West Antelope II coal leases would lead to the mining of more than 400 million tons of coal in the Powder River Basin.