- A federal judge on Friday ruled that the Trump administration failed to consider potential damage to the environment from its decision to resume coal sales from U.S. lands, but the court stopped short of halting future sales. A federal judge in Montana says the Trump administration failed to consider the environmental effects of resuming coal sales from federal lands, but stopped short of halting future sales. Article Continued BelowThe Obama administration imposed a moratorium on most federal coal sales in 2016. The attorneys general of California, New Mexico, New York and Washington, all Democrats, also had sued over the resumption of the federal coal lease program. Production and combustion of coal from federal lands accounted for about 11 per cent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2014.

Source: thestar April 19, 2019 22:45 UTC