Sentences with phrase «federal coal leasing»

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and others in the Obama administration should take the President's call to climate action seriously, beginning with a moratorium and comprehensive review of the federal coal leasing program, including its role in fueling the climate crisis.

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.

As we've seen, the cheap coal made available by the federal coal leasing program has encouraged increased coal consumption in the United States for decades, at the expense of cleaner forms of energy.

The role of the federal coal leasing program in increasing the supply of coal and carbon pollution was highlighted by a recent federal court ruling, which blocked Arch Coal's plan to expand a mine in Colorado.

The federal coal leasing program amounts to a major fossil fuel subsidy, favoring coal at the expense of cleaner forms of generating electricity.

The federal coal leasing program is the source of 40 % of US coal extraction, with major impacts on coal markets and carbon pollution.

Without major changes, the federal coal leasing program will continue to undermine federal, state, and international efforts to reduce carbon pollution; the BLM Wyoming office plans to lease over 10 billion tons of coal in the coming years, dwarfing the emissions reductions expected from the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

The United States» federal coal leasing program has come under increased scrutiny in recent years, as communities impacted by coal mining and export proposals, taxpayer advocates, and environmental groups have questioned the ability of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to ensure a fair return to US taxpayers and adjust to newer challenges such as climate change and coal export proposals.

The Bureau of Land Management has not adjusted to the US coal mining industry's efforts to increase exports of publicly owned coal.The US coal mining industry is openly aiming to increase exports of publicly owned coal, and the federal coal leasing program has been faulted by multiple government audits for ignoring exports when determining the «fair market value» of leased coal.

The federal coal leasing program amounts to a major fossil fuel subsidy, favoring coal at the expense of cleaner forms of generating electricity.A recent federal court ruling rejected BLM's argument that increasing the supply of coal would not increase carbon pollution, in part because coal competes with cleaner methods of generating electricity.

Another problem with the federal coal leasing program is that Bureau of Land Management officials have failed to comprehend or adjust to the US coal mining industry's efforts to increase exports of publicly owned coal.

This question is especially important in light of a recent federal court ruling, which blocked plans to expand a coal mine in Colorado because of the failure of the federal coal leasing program to properly consider the federal government's social cost of carbon figures and climate change impacts.

A moratorium and comprehensive review of the federal coal leasing program is needed to ensure that it does not continue undermining President Obama's Climate Action Plan.

It was not immediately clear Monday whether Trump's Interior Department would continue a broad review of the federal coal leasing program even as it restarts sales; that analysis is already about a third complete, with regulators unveiling a broad blueprint of possible changes earlier this year.

«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.

And she listened — in March 2015, she called for an «open and honest conversation to modernize the federal coal leasing program.»

Other important topics related to mining include federal coal leasing, reclamation, and environmental impacts.

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.

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.»

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

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.

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.

, 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.

Revenues from federal coal leases have generated about $ 1 billion annually in recent years.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

«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.

Reading between the lines, some see the president's statement as a signal that the administration will try to push through reforms to federal leasing programs for oil, gas and coal on public lands.

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.

The amount of coal produced from federal leases and associated revenues have increased since 1990, although production has leveled off since 2002.

For years, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has used tortured economic logic to mask its willful ignorance of the tremendous harm done to our climate and people through federal leasing of more than five billions of tons of coal.

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.

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.

The government has suspended new coal leases on federal land.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.

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.

This most recent stance against coal comes on the heels of President Obama's decision last week to freeze all new coal mining leases on federal land until the climate risks are incorporated into any leasing decision.

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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.

Under the bill, there would be no new leases for extraction of fossil fuels — such as coal, oil, and gas — on all federal lands.