Associated Press: U.S. officials on Wednesday cleared the way for a review of two mining projects that would dig up 644 million tons of coal from public lands, despite a recent government moratorium halting federal coal sales.
Wyoming, Montana and U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials approved moving forward with a multiyear evaluation of the projects located next to existing mines in the states' Powder River Basin, the nation's largest coal-producing region.
The Jan. 15 moratorium from the Obama administration......
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Coal projects advance but won’t be final under moratorium
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 27th, 2016
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