The website Progress Report sent me the following article; it concerns the coal mining and transortation "problem".
Here is a copy of a paragraph from the article:The last time rules for coal mining on tax-payer public lands were updated, smoking was allowed on airplanes, airbags weren’t required in cars, and sewage was still dumped into the ocean. But today, the Obama administration announced a package of reforms to modernize and reform the federal coal leasing program.
http://about.bgov.com/blog/obama-gets-serious-about-war-on-coal-set-to-pause-leases-study-climate-impact/
I guess before deciding how bad this news is, how much coal is mined on these public lands?
rrnut282how much coal is mined on these public lands?
Some sources claim that 30% of all US coal reserves lie under Federal land. Withe the current economic arrangements depriving tax payers of $1billion/year in lost revenue
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