Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–July 29, 2014. A new report released today by the Center for American Progress finds that the federal coal-leasing program in the nation’s richest coal region, the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana, is costing more than $19 billion per year in losses and damages resulting from carbon pollution.
Using recently released data and guidelines from the U.S. government, CAP calculated that the social cost of the carbon pollution that results from mining…
