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Under Trump, Coal Mining Gets New Life on U.S. Lands

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Type
Literature
Publication
Lipton, E., Meier, B. 2017. Under Trump, Coal Mining Gets New Life on U.S. Lands. The New York Times.
Year Published
2017
Description

The Trump administration is wading into one of the oldest and most contentious debates in the West by encouraging more coal mining on lands owned by the federal government. It is part of an aggressive push to both invigorate the struggling American coal industry and more broadly exploit commercial opportunities on public lands.

Geography
United States
National
Website
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/us/politics/under-trump-coal-mining-gets-new…

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