{"id":514085,"date":"2022-08-16T09:40:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=514085"},"modified":"2022-08-16T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T04:55:35","slug":"federal-judge-revives-obama-era-ban-on-coal-sales-from-federal-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/federal-judge-revives-obama-era-ban-on-coal-sales-from-federal-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge revives Obama-era ban on coal sales from federal lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has reinstated a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands that was imposed under former President Barack Obama and then scuttled under former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s ruling from US District Judge Brian Morris requires government officials to complete a new environmental review before they can resume coal sales from federal lands.<\/p>\n<p>Few leases have been sold in recent years as coal demand shrank drastically. But the industry&#8217;s opponents had urged Morris to revive the Obama-era moratorium to ensure it can&#8217;t make a comeback as wildfires, drought, rising sea levels and other effects of climate change worsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has reinstated a moratorium on coal leasing from federal lands that was imposed under former President Barack Obama and then scuttled under former President Donald Trump. Friday&#8217;s ruling from US District Judge Brian Morris requires government officials to complete a new environmental review before they can resume coal sales from federal lands. Few leases have been sold in recent years as coal demand shrank drastically. But the industry&#8217;s opponents had urged Morris to revive the Obama-era moratorium to ensure it can&#8217;t make a comeback as wildfires, drought, rising sea levels and other effects of climate change worsen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}