'Coal is killing our climate, yet the Biden administration is defending it' in federal court, JeremyJNichols1 lamented.
Although the tribal and conservation organizations suing the DOI stress that nothing meaningful has been done to mitigate air, water, and climate damages caused by the federal coal leasing program, the U.S. Department of Justice asked a federal court not to rule on alleged legal violations in a"The Biden administration cannot have it both ways on coal," Jenny Harbine, managing attorney for Earthjustice's Northern Rockies office,Friday in a statement.
As the coal industry and the states of Montana and Wyoming defend former President Donald Trump's coal policy in court, the Biden administration is helping to prolong it through inaction, Indigenous rights and environmental advocates argue.on the campaign trail that he would halt fossil fuel extraction on public lands,"came into office promising to be a climate champion," said Harbine.
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