Posted on 11/30/2024 8:03:37 AM PST by bitt
The Biden administration moved on Thanksgiving eve to bar future coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, one of America’s most coal-rich regions, according to multiple reports.
The Powder River Basin, a region that spans parts of Montana and Wyoming, accounted for about 43% of U.S. coal in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The administration made its move to formally end coal leasing in the area and roll back previous approvals for development plans on Wednesday as Americans prepared to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday, according to E&E News.
“The decision is to make no federal coal available for future leasing,” Todd Yeager, the field manager for the Buffalo office of the Bureau of Land Management, wrote in a filing announcing the move, according to E&E News. Yeager added that the decision will take about 48 billion short tons of coal off the table for mining and development.
The Trump administration, set to officially assume power in January 2025, is likely to walk back Wednesday’s moves when they get the chance to do so, according to The Hill. The Biden administration signaled that it could be moving to end coal leasing in the Powder River Basin in May when it released its proposals.
Republican Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso slammed the administration’s choice to end future coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, according to The Hill.
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This will be reversed in ten minutes by Trump. The war on American energy continues. Most of it goes to China anyway.
So, an eight week ban?
Weird that repub,ican presidents never seem to be able to open up “future coal leasing” which would prevent democrats in power from preventing it
Seems the dems always get to create “future rules laws and regu,ations” and the feckless courts back em up, but when republican presidents try the same, nope, no go
Barasso is a Thuney puppet.
Wonder if MAGA can use it as leverage to get him to support some other MAGA agenda items?
Federal Land shouldn’t, with a few exceptions, exist.
I guess the idiot has nothing else to do. Now some Trump staff will have to draft another EO for the 20th.
Still looking at that pesky constitution thingie, and I can’t find where the power to regulate coal was granted to the fed...
Go after the root of the problem.
Have the IRS revoke the tax exemptions of the environmental groups since they are just leftist political activists.
Then we will be hearing less and less from them.
Go after the root of the problem.
Have the IRS revoke the tax exemptions of the environmental groups since they are just leftist political activists.
Then we will be hearing less and less from them.
Reverse the EO by EO.
>> “The decision is to make no federal coal available for future leasing,” Todd Yeager, the field manager for the Buffalo office of the Bureau of Land Management
Sure, it’ll be reversed, but keep trying ‘Rats, you’re exposing yourselves.
Add Todd to the list of bureaucRATS to fire.
Add Buffalo BLM office to list of bureaucracies to shut down.
This is just blatant economic warfare against what the communists call “flyover country” and they need to be punished politically for it.
Executive action can be reversed with a pen.
Trump should ask his people to find every EO from Biden and cancel them all outright on day 1. Kinda like a class action suit. Just call it the “IDIOT BIDEN REVERSAL for the return of common sense”.
Totally negate biden’s entire 4 year term
Military Bases and the Federal District of Columbia. That's it.
Unless someone wants to open a mine there before January 20th may have a problem. After the 20th of January when the fraudulent maladministration is history...Drill, Baby, Drill!!!
Trump will need an autopen to help with all the Day 1 EO’s.
“Federal Land shouldn’t, with a few exceptions, exist.”
Let’s sell it to Gates, Zuckerberg and the Chinese.
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