{"id":648912,"date":"2025-10-06T12:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648912"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:34:45","slug":"us-government-to-auction-600-million-tonnes-of-coal-who-will-buy-climate-concerns-also-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-government-to-auction-600-million-tonnes-of-coal-who-will-buy-climate-concerns-also-loom\/","title":{"rendered":"US government to auction 600 million tonnes of coal: Who will buy? Climate concerns also loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the coming days, US authorities will conduct the nation\u2019s largest coal auctions in over a decade, offering 600 million tonnes from state-owned reserves adjacent to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. The leases, located in the Powder River Basin\u2014the country\u2019s most productive coal region\u2014were expedited following a January executive order by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>While the auctions align with Trump\u2019s goal of increasing coal extraction from federal lands for power generation, an Associated Press analysis shows that many power stations served by these mines plan to stop using coal within a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the coming days, US authorities will conduct the nation\u2019s largest coal auctions in over a decade, offering 600 million tonnes from state-owned reserves adjacent to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. The leases, located in the Powder River Basin\u2014the country\u2019s most productive coal region\u2014were expedited following a January executive order by President Donald Trump. While the auctions align with Trump\u2019s goal of increasing coal extraction from federal lands for power generation, an Associated Press analysis shows that many power stations served by these mines plan to stop using coal within a decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648912","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}