‘This will kill jobs’
By 
Nick Pope
Daily Caller News Foundation
The Biden administration is moving to end future leasing in a large swath of America’s top coal-producing region.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) proposed Thursday to effectively ban future leasing in a sizable portion of the Powder River Basin, a coal-rich geologic formation covering parts of Wyoming and Montana. The Powder River Basin provided about 43% of the coal produced in the U.S. in 2019, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
BLM published a final plan after considering alternative options that would have maintained the status quo or limited, but not ended, future coal leasing activity in the area. The agency opted to go forth with the “no leasing” proposal, which would “[make] no BLM-administered coal available for leasing within the planning area,” according to the final impact statement’s text.
