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A federal appeals court blocked an Obama-era moratorium on federal coal leasing issued in 2016 as part of an effort to transition U.S. energy to green sources.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday axed an Obama-era moratorium on new coal mine leasing on public lands. It did so by overturning a ruling from 2022 that revived the Obama-era freeze on auctioning off federally owned lands for coal mining. In 2022, a lower court ruled that in ending the coal leasing pause, the…
A federal appeals court blocked an Obama-era moratorium on federal coal leasing issued in 2016 as part of an effort to transition U.S. energy to green sources.