Sentences with phrase «coal leasing»

Both internal federal investigations as well as reports from external advocates show that the federal coal leasing program has cost taxpayers and the climate dearly.

The government has suspended new coal leases on federal land.

Since then, we have followed through with appealing and filing suit over new coal leases, and have helped to nationally elevate this issue.

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.

But despite the major impacts of the federal coal leasing program on the price of coal and carbon pollution, it has been largely administered by state BLM offices, with minimal oversight from the Interior Department, much less the White House.

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.

Jewell's successor, Ryan Zinke, reversed those steps: The results from the review of coal leasing were discarded, a moratorium on new leases lifted and a proposed rule to increase royalties rescinded.

That is the period expected by the Interior Department according to a press release announcing the Wyoming coal lease sales, which stated that «revenue estimates are based on the future price of mined coal between 2015 and 2030.»

We can also calculate an average social cost of carbon figure for each ton of coal by dividing the total social cost of carbon damages by the total quantity of public coal leased during the Obama administration, 2,237,004,772 tons.

The carbon pollution from publicly owned coal leased during the Obama administration will cause damages estimated at between $ 52 billion and $ 530 billion, using the federal government's social cost of carbon estimates.

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.

It was arbitrary and capricious, the appeals court said, for BLM to pretend that there was no «real world difference» between granting and denying coal leases, on the theory that the coal would simply be produced at a different mine.

Just before Trump took office in January 2017, Obama Interior Secretary Sally Jewell released the results of a year - long coal leasing review.

For its environmental review of the Hay Creek II coal lease in Wyoming, BLM estimated CO2 emissions from the coal using an «emission factor of 1.659 metric tons CO2 / ton of coal burned» and we can assume similar sub-bituminous coal with relatively low BTU values in the Buffalo RMP area.

One BLM field office in Wyoming recently proposed a plan that estimates new coal leases amounting to 10.2 billion tons, which would unlock an estimated 16.9 billion metric tons of carbon pollution.

No issuance of new federal coal leases until reforms that increase royalty rates, set sensitive lands aside, insure public transparency, and fully assess impacts from all aspects of coal production are implemented.

«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.

and the United States have announced bold steps to address domestic coal leasing.

Speak out against coal leasing and climate denial under Trump!

The recent federal court ruling also noted how increased supplies of cheap coal must be considered in the context of other methods of generating electricity, to reject BLM's argument «that the same amount of coal will be burned whether or not» a particular coal lease is approved:

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.

The U.S. temporarily halts coal leasing on federal lands to reassess its policy in light of global warming

About 40 percent of U.S. - produced coal comes from 310 active coal leases managed by BLM.

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.

Solid Energy is also pursuing the development of unconventional coal projects: the Huntly Underground Coal Gasification Pilot Plant, a commercial trial of underground coal gasification on private land within its Huntly coal lease; a coal seam gas demonstration plant on the Huntly coalfield; the Mataura Lignite Briquetting Plant, a lignite briquette plant at Matuara; and studies on a lignite to fertiliser project and a coal - to - liquids project in Southland.

A month later, a federal appeals court told BLM that it had to re-do its assessment of the climate consequences of four huge coal leases because they were economically «irrational.»

Federal coal leasing accounts for about 40 percent of total U.S. coal production.

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.»

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 Trump Administration wants to re-approve four massive coal leases in the Powder River Basin, the nation's largest coal producing region.

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 Belle Ayr coal lease was sold on July 13, 2011 to Peabody Energy.

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.

But pausing coal leases is necessary to ensure a fair return to American taxpayers and to account for climate change, according to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.

During Obama's final days in office, his team released a blueprint for overhauling the program that included the possibility of tacking a carbon fee onto coal leases or ending it altogether.

To do so, we must first determine the amount of carbon pollution that will be released from BLM's recent coal leases; this analysis will focus on coal that has been leased during the Obama administration.

A year and a half earlier, BLM Wyoming approved two major coal lease sales that allowed Peabody to add 1.1 billion tons of coal to that very coal mine.

This analysis doesn't attempt to predict the additional coal leasing and new mine permitting that would probably be driven by exporting coal.

, 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.»

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.

So she helped rally a group of a dozen Climate Reality Leaders to testify at a Department of the Interior hearing on coal leasing in Seattle, arguing that it's time to make the moratorium permanent.

Worse, because of this regulatory smoke and mirrors coal companies, including Arch and Peabody, not the federal government, get to draw up their own coal leases.

The Caballo West coal lease is up for auction on August 17, 2011.

The first was filed in July 2010 over the decision to offer the West Antelope II coal leases for sale.

For example, the Buffalo Field Office of the Wyoming State BLM office has proposed a Regional Management Plan (RMP) and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) which estimates 28 new coal leases amounting to 10.2 billion tons of coal.

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.