The federal coal program must end or seriously reform
Earlier this year, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell called for “an honest and open conversation about modernizing the federal government’s coal program.” Today I am speaking at the Washington D.C. coal listening session to start that conversation. To be honest and open about our climate reality is to acknowledge that the only “modern” coal leasing program is one that doesn’t lease coal at all, but keeps it in the ground.
This is…