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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.
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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 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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.
, 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.»
Publicly released in 2014, the GAO report found coal production from federally leased land leveled off in 2002.
Echoes of «keep it in the ground» One former official interpreted Obama's remarks as being aimed at either raising the cost of coal through BLM's leasing process or making it off - limits to coal companies altogether.
The Commonwealth Government of Australia has recently issued a lease for a new coal mine in Queensland.
He declares a relevant interest in income derived from leasing land for farming, coal mining and wind power.
The U.S. temporarily halts coal leasing on federal lands to reassess its policy in light of global warming
As Montana's only representative in the House, Zinke has also been a strong supporter of Montana coal and has expressed concern over a three - year leasing moratorium and programmatic review of the federal coal program undertaken this year by Interior.
He sponsored legislation to ensure that states and tribes have a say in changes to federal coal, oil and gas royalties or leasing policy.
The Obama administration did indeed place a federal moratorium on all new coal mining leases on public lands across the country in June — but but only out of concern from environmentalists, Congress, and the Department of the Interior that coal companies have spent 30 years cheating taxpayers out of $ 30 billion in royalties.
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 monein 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 monein recent years: In 2013 and 2014, the school construction account received $ 433.4 million in coal lease bonus moneIn 2013 and 2014, the school construction account received $ 433.4 million in coal lease bonus monein 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.
In the Bureau of Land Management's upcoming lease auction for over 700 million tons of coal on public land in Wyoming, there's likely only to be one bidder: Peabody EnerIn the Bureau of Land Management's upcoming lease auction for over 700 million tons of coal on public land in Wyoming, there's likely only to be one bidder: Peabody Enerin Wyoming, there's likely only to be one bidder: Peabody Energy
Through subsidiaries, AEP owns, leases, or controls more than 9,000 railcars, 726 barges, 18 towboats, and a coal handling terminal with 18 million tons of annual capacity to move and store coal for use in its generating facilities.
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.
These anti-hydrocarbon policies also mean the U.S. Treasury will be deprived of hundreds of billions of dollars in lease bonuses, royalties, taxes and other revenues that it would realize from the development of our nation's vast oil, natural gas and coal deposits.
That was the basic logic employed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 2010 when it approved the new leases in the Powder River Basin that stretches across Wyoming and Montana, expanding projects that hold some 2 billion tons of coal, big enough to supply at least a fifth of the nation's needs.
Just a month after international climate negotiations in Paris, both China and the United States have announced bold steps to address domestic coal leasing.
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.»
American Indian Coal Lease: A lease granted to a mining company to produce coal from land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans, Native American tribes, and Alaska Natives in exchange for royalties and other revenCoal Lease: A lease granted to a mining company to produce coal from land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans, Native American tribes, and Alaska Natives in exchange for royalties and other revencoal from land held in trust by the United States for Native Americans, Native American tribes, and Alaska Natives in exchange for royalties and other revenues.
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.
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.
A federal district judge ruled Friday that the Bureau of Land Management violated the law when it made 80 billion tons of coal available for leasing and opened up more than 8 million acres for oil and gas development in the Powder River Basin without first assessing the environmental risks or considering any alternatives.
On May 11, 2011, the Port of Morrow Commission approved a one - year lease option with Coyote Island Terminal LLC of Salt Lake City, Utah, to build a rail off - loading coal terminal on up to 24.26 acres to transfer the coal onto barges for shipment to the Millennium Bulk Logistics Longview Terminal in Washington, and on to customers in Asia.
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.
«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.
E.ON U.S. also owns Western Kentucky Energy Corporation, which until July 2009 had been leasing and operating five coal - fired plants owned by Big Rivers Electric Corporation in Western Kentucky.
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 federal leases would expand the existing Caballo and Belle Ayr strip mines, already the sixth and ninth largest coal mines in the U.S., respectively.
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.
Nearly 90 % of coal produced from public lands is from leases in the Powder River Basin (PRB) of Wyoming and Montana.
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.
Demand for coal over the period is found to be far outweighed by supply from existing leases alone, meaning that no new federal acreage in the Powder River Basin is required to be leased by the Federal government through the end of our assessment period in 2040.
To satisfy the increase in world liquids demand in the Reference case, liquids production increases by 28.3 million barrels per day from 2010 to 2040, including the production of both petroleum (crude oil and lease condensate, natural gas plant [NGPL], bitumen, extra-heavy oil, and refinery gains), and other liquid fuels (coal - to - liquids [CTL], gas - to - liquids [GTL], biofuels, and kerogen).
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.
The Bureau of Land Management has leased to the coal industry 400 million tons of coal on federal land in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, and the administration has defended the decision against a court challenge by environmental groups.
In January 2016 the US Secretary of the Interior announced a moratorium on new coal leasing on public lands pending completion of...
Oil and gas lease sales, royalties from mineral and energy production, Alaska's «Open for Business» initiative, renewable energy development, mineral extraction, the future of coal production from public lands, offshore renewable energy development, and oil and gas exploration and drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf were just some of the topics discussed.
On November 12, 2009 Arch Coal (ACI) announced that it is leasing 9,600 acres in southeastern Montana's Powder River Basin.
Even before the Obama administration imposed the coal - leasing moratorium in January 2016, coal producers had little interest in adding new federal reserves to their portfolios, amid slumping domestic demand.