Interior’s New Coal Royalty Rule Must Close Loopholes Costing Taxpayers Millions of Dollars in Lost Royalty Revenue

by Gary Kopycinski on May 11, 2015

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Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–May 11, 2015. Nidhi Thakar, Deputy Director of the Public Lands Project at the Center for American Progress, released the following statement today on the close of the comment period for the U.S. Department of the Interior rulemaking on coal royalty valuation, ONRR-2012-0004-0024.