Sentences with phrase «of coal leasing»
This conclusion is supported by the history of the coal leasing program, an International Monetary Fund report on fossil fuel subsidies, and common sense.
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However, the IG and GAO reviews fell far short of a comprehensive review of the coal leasing program, and did not attempt to calculate the total amount of taxpayer revenue that has been lost.
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.
The moratorium is part of the Interior Department's three - year study of the impact of the coal leasing program on climate change.
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.
About 40 percent of U.S. - produced coal comes from 310 active coal leases managed by BLM.
Last summer, Interior launched a series of listening sessions on the coal program, aimed at making leasing «more transparent and more competitive» (E&EN ews PM, July 29, 2015).
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.
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 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.
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.
Broadly stated: if you reject a lease and take a large portion of a commodity (here coal, but it could have been natural gas, tar sands, etc.) off the market, you decrease the supply, increase the cost, and, over the long term, decrease the use of that commodity.
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.
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.
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 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.
Last month, 53 members of Congress — including Washington State's Republican Rep. Doc Hastings — sent a letter to the U.S. Army and the Department of the Interior, which grants leases to mine coal, asking the agencies to «expedite their consideration of permits for coal export facilities.»
When they get tired of leasing the mineral rights and get distracted by another cause we can burn the coal.
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.
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.
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.
The leases were at Arch Coal's Black Thunder mine and Peabody Energy's North Antelope - Rochelle mine, among the biggest operations of two of the world's biggest coal companCoal's Black Thunder mine and Peabody Energy's North Antelope - Rochelle mine, among the biggest operations of two of the world's biggest coal compancoal companies.
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.
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.
Over the past seven years, the Interior Department has leased more than 2 billion tons of publicly owned 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.
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.
Not surprisingly, coal companies create leases that preclude meaningful competition and facilitate the expansion of their existing mines.
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.
Click here for a summary of the pending coal leases.
«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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.