Sentences with phrase «owned coal leased»

A ton of publicly owned coal leased during the Obama administration will, on average, cause damages estimated at between $ 22 and $ 237, using the federal government's social cost of carbon estimates — yet the average price per ton for those coal leases was only $ 1.03.

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Less well known are its efforts to sell mining leases on federally owned land to promote coal exports abroad.

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.

Over the past seven years, the Interior Department has leased more than 2 billion tons of publicly owned coal.

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.

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.

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 Bureau of Land Management has leased 2.2 billion tons of publicly owned coal during the Obama administration, unlocking 3.9 billion metric tons of carbon pollution.

The Bureau of Land Management has leased 2.2 billion tons of publicly owned coal during the Obama administration, unlocking 3.9 billion metric tons of carbon pollution.This is equivalent to the annual emissions of over 825 million passenger vehicles, and more than the 3.7 billion tons that was emitted in the entire European Union in 2012.

This analysis shows that the BLM has leased 2,237,004,772 tons of publicly owned coal during the Obama administration, which has unlocked an estimated 3,922,481,766 metric tons of carbon pollution — nearly four gigatons.

This is for the North Porcupine tract, and like the South Porcupine tract that BLM leased to Peabody last month — even though this coal is owned by you and me — the lease was drawn up by Peabody itself for its own profit.

Earthjustice, a nonprofit environmental law firm, is suing to block the lease of state - owned land in Otter Creek, Mont., to Arch Coal for mining to serve demand in Asia and elsewhere.