Researcher and writer focused on coal, renewable energy, electric cooperatives, and climate change policy, politics, and impacts
Earlier this year, I looked at just how much the largest US coal mining companies depend on access to subsidized federal coal, most of it extracted from public lands in the Powder River Basin of…
The biggest coal mining companies in the country depend on subsidized federal coal, even as they attack federal climate and clean air policies.
Last week the Obama administration announced an immediate moratorium on new federal coal leasing and a comprehensive review of the federal coal program, following President Barack…