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Keeping 11 Billion Tons of Powder River Basin Coal in the Ground

Feb 12, 2016 | Climate & Energy

Keeping 11 Billion Tons of Powder River Basin Coal in the Ground As we hurdle toward the point of no return on climate, the federal Bureau of Land Management attempted to make available billions of tons of fossil fuels on our public lands. The BLM’s 2015 resource...

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