The Decker Coal Mine on publicly owned land in the Powder River Basin in Decker, Montana on Nov. 13, 2013. WildEarth Guardians
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The United States Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed the ending of new coal leases on federal land in Montana and Wyoming’s Powder River Basin (PRB) — the nation’s most productive area for the highly polluting fossil fuel.
The new proposal would impact millions of acres of mineral reserves on federal lands,…
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