A judge on Friday ruled that the Interior Department acted illegally when it tried to roll back Obama era regulation on coal mining. This is an important set back to the Trumps Administration's goal to help coal mining make a comeback. The regulation was a freeze on opening new coal mine leases on public lands. The policy was put into place in an attempt to slow climate change. The Judge stated that the Interior Department's policy to overturn the freeze failed to include adequate studies to justify the policy change. It is also expected that in the upcoming months, he will make a decision regarding whether the Obama freeze should be reinstated.
I think this will be interesting to follow especially with the upcoming 2020 election. Will environmental concerns be a larger aspect of the debates?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/climate/court-trump-coal-mining-setback.html
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I, personally, would like to see environmental concerns play a larger role in the debates. After all, it's not only the leftists that are worried about it, it's also the military. Any state's sources of energy play a large part in national security as well as the economy, and coupled with environmental aspects, there seems to be no reason to ignore the environment as much as has been done recently. In regards to the Interior Department, it just goes to show that the power of the coal lobby is still immense.
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