Senate Democrats Urged To Broaden National Climate Bank Proposal

Senate Democrats are being urged to broaden their bill that would create a “national climate bank” in order to encourage development of “beneficial uses” of coal and other mineral resources, a concept that may boost support in fossil fuel states despite broader signs of Republican resistance to the proposal. During an April 27 hearing on S. 283, the National Climate Bank Act, Campbell County, WY, Commissioner Rusty Bell -- whose county produces low-sulfur coal as well as oil, natural gas...