Court Blocks Coal Mine Approval Over Failure To Review Climate Effects

A federal court has blocked approval of a coal mine expansion after finding that Interior Department officials failed to adequately consider the greenhouse gas effects of the coal's transport and use in an environmental review of the project, underscoring that agencies likely will have to address fossil projects' climate effects despite the Trump administration's opposition to quantifying such measures. Judge Donald Molloy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana said in an Aug. 14 decision in Montana...