Groups hope DOI coal review keeps pressure on industry

August 20, 2021
Environmentalists are hoping that the Biden Interior Department’s (DOI) just-launched review of the federal coal leasing program will continue pressure on the beleaguered industry in order to restrict the supply of the high-carbon fuel and meet the country’s greenhouse gas targets. The coal program review, announced Aug. 19, comes amid months of wrangling between DOI and the oil sector over officials’ high-profile leasing moratorium for the federal oil and gas program, with Interior reiterating earlier this week that it plans...


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