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The Administration’s Fixation on Coal Makes No Sense

With no market demand for coal, why does the BLM want to resume leasing in the Powder River Basin? by Lynne Huskinson, WORC board member The Trump administration has been fixated on resuscitating the coal industry, long in steep decline. That explains why the Bureau of Land Management is now eager to resume leasing of publicly-owned coal in the Powder River Basin, which stretches across northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana.…