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Court Rejects BLM Plans to Mine Coal, Install Oil and Gas Wells Over 15 Million Acres in Powder River Basin

Powder River Basin
Coal from the Powder River Basin is already responsible for 13% of our country’s total carbon dioxide emissions. (Source: Wild Earth Guardians)

GREAT FALLS, Montana–(ENEWSPF)—March 26, 2018

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Contact: Kyle Tisdel, Western Environmental Law Center

On Friday, a federal court found a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plan allowing coal mining and oil and gas drilling on over 15 million acres of public land and mineral rights in Montana and Wyoming to be unlawful. The…

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