How Coal Could Help Save Money and the Planet

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Date

June 24, 2016

News Type

Media Highlight

Source

US News & World Report

"Federal lands provide about 40 percent of the coal that fuels U.S. electric power plants. Private producers lease the rights to extract this coal on federal lands, but current leasing policies fail key economic tests, says a new report from the President's Council of Economic Advisers, discussed this week at Resources for the Future."

Topics

Electric Power

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