[Editor’s note: President Trump signed an executive order today lifting many restrictions on coal plants]
Press release from the interior department
Measures will restore the role of the cabbage industry in economy, the protection of jobs and to strengthen national energy security
04/08/2025
Last edited 04/08/2025
Date: April 8, 2025
WASHINGTON – The Ministry of the Interior confirms its commitment to the goal of the American energy dominance of the Trump government with a new focus on coal. Through an executive regulation of President Donald J. Trump, the department will carry out a number of courageous political steps and regulatory reforms in order to position coal as the cornerstone of the country's energy strategy by ensuring that the federal states remain open and accessible to responsible energy development.
“The golden age is here and we start” my, baby, mine “for clean American coal”, ” Said Department of the Interior Minister Doug Burgum. “Interior shoots the full potential of America in energy dominance and economic development in order to make life more affordable for every American family and at the same time show the power of natural resources and innovation of America.”
In order to support the striving for the Trump management according to energy dominance, the department actively works to revive the coal mining industry through a number of crucial measures. By expanding access to cabbage reserves such as the recent approval of the Mine expansion of the Spring Creek in Montana and the streamlined permit processes, the administration deprives many years of regulatory obstacles that have undermined American coal production. These efforts support highly paid mining jobs and rural economies and at the same time strengthen the independence of US energy by reducing the dependency on foreign energy sources. Coal is a critical part of a safe, stable and diversified American energy portfolio.
End the Kohleleasing moratorium
The department will officially end its moratorium for the Federal Coal Leasing, a step that corresponds to “American energy” with the priority of President Trump by reducing regulatory obstacles and promoting energy independence.
In the past nine years, the status of measures in connection with a moratorium for the moratorium of national coal has remained unclear. In 2016, President Obama's secretary of the interior, Sally Jewell, the BLM, ordered to pause coal leasing in public countries with a few exceptions, while the BLM has completed an environmental exam. In 2017, President Trump's Interior Minister, Ryan Zinke, revoked the command. In 2021, President Biden, Deb Haaland's Secretary, opened Zinke's command not to reorganize the coal -Leasing moratorium or environmental examination. In 2024, an appellate court of the federal government decided that the Haaland order 2021 reverse the interest order and at the same time ended the moratorium. The court said that all complaints according to the Haaland arrangement were controversial and ordered all other legal proceedings.
In order to ensure clarity and certainty, the Bureau of Land Management publishes a notification in the Federal Register that there is no environmental impact declaration or another environmental analysis of the Federal Coal Leasing program by arranging the former secretary Sally Jewell and finally ending the last remaining open objects in connection with the moratorium of the moratoria.
Reopening of the state of the state in Montana and Wyoming for Kohleleasing
To further support Kohlelean, the BLM will pursue the change process for plans for Buffalo and Miles City Resource Management in Wyoming and Montana. As part of the current plans, future kohleleasing is severely restricted, which makes it much more difficult for new national coal projects to go. Over time, these plans could significantly reduce the availability of federal coal reserves in two of the country's largest coal regions. By revising these plans, the interior would create a way forward to reach unused federal coal reserves, especially in areas with high production such as the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.
Removing regulatory loads for coalemins
In accordance with the arrangement of the secretary 3418, the Office for Surface Removal and the enforcement of American Energy will carry out a process for revising the ten -day dismissal rule of 2024 in order to largely return to the version of the rule in 2020 and to maintain certain parts of the rule in 2024. This process for regulation will help reduce the non -contact supervision of the federal government and to give the states more power on how complaints about violations of coal mining can deal. By eliminating part of the federal broadcast of the rule of 2024, the department will trust the states to do their work, at the same time to avoid unnecessary federal mixes and to offer stability to the coal industry.
Provision of license fees in installments
The department is ready to rationalize and accelerate the process in order to check the amounts of coal producers to temporarily lower the Federal Government for the extraction of coal from public countries. Lower license fees can help keep the mines open and maintain the local tax revenue.
By accelerating license aid requests, interior is aimed at the fact that coal operators remain in the shop, which supports stable indoor energy production and maximizes long -term resource recovery from federal areas.
While the department takes the above measures to support the coal industry by continuing unnecessary regulatory stress, the interior will promote responsible coal development, the creation of jobs and long -term energy security by opening access to the enormous energy resources of America.
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