{"id":105678,"date":"2021-01-28T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=105678"},"modified":"2021-01-28T09:39:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:39:25","slug":"coal-wins-curious-reprieve-in-bidens-assault-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/coal-wins-curious-reprieve-in-bidens-assault-on-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Wins Curious Reprieve in Biden\u2019s Assault on Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden enlisted the entire U.S. government in the fight against climate change on Wednesday, even telling the <meta itemprop=\"security\" content=\"0112917D US Equity\"><meta itemprop=\"type\" content=\"SecurityLink\">Central Intelligence Agency to consider global warming a national security threat.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he left out coal &#8212; the fossil fuel most widely blamed for global warming &#8212; when he froze the sale of leases to extract oil and gas from federal land.<\/p>\n<p><\/path><\/g><\/svg> $69.\u200b9B  Renewable power investment worldwide in Q2 2020 -5.\u200b56% Today&#8217;s arctic ice area vs. historic average     <svg width=\"100%\" viewBox=\"0 0 400 100\" preserveAspectRatio=\"xMinYMid\" class=\"svelte-1agbo4c\"><defs><marker id=\"circle\" viewBox=\"0 0 3 3\" refX=\"1.5\" refY=\"1.5\" markerWidth=\"3\" markerHeight=\"3\" orient=\"auto-start-reverse\"><circle fill=\"currentColor\" cx=\"1.5\" cy=\"1.5\" r=\"1.5\"><\/circle><\/marker><\/defs><g transform=\"translate(2, 4)\"><\/p>\n<p><\/path><\/g><\/svg> 50,\u200b820  Million metric tons of greenhouse emissions, most recent annual data  <svg viewBox=\"0 3 100 47\"><\/p>\n<p><\/path><g class=\"marker svelte-xiruid\" transform=\"translate(69.13025193107656,15.638924777010443)\"><\/p>\n<p><\/path><\/g><\/svg> <span>Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan<\/span>Most polluted air today, in sensor range  <\/p>\n<p>            <script class=\"params\" type=\"application\/json\">{\"contentId\":\"QNLY8UT0G1L201\",\"position\":\"greensponsoredby\",\"dimensions\":{\"small_desktop\":[[190,31]],\"large_desktop\":[[190,31]],\"tablet\":[[190,31]],\"mobile\":[[190,31]]},\"positionIncrement\":2,\"targeting\":{\"position\":\"greensponsoredby2\",\"positionIncrement\":2,\"url\":\"\/news\/articles\/2021-01-28\/coal-wins-curious-reprieve-in-biden-s-assault-on-climate-change\"},\"containerId\":\"greensponsoredby-bmeg341\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was a conspicuous omission for a president who has vowed to make the electric grid carbon-free by 2035 and who has said the world\u2019s \u201c<meta itemprop=\"type\" content=\"WebLink\">future rests in renewable energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis order should have included all fossil fuel extraction on public lands,\u201d said Mitch Jones, policy director at the environmental group Food and Water Watch, who called the decision to leave out coal both \u201ca disappointment\u201d and \u201cscientifically unsound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.sailthru.com\/4wm\/1k4\/c\/2\/5fc7b5e2f2004.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years we\u2019ve been force fed the false idea that fracked gas &#8212; fracked methane &#8212; is cleaner than coal, but, now, coal gets a pass?\u201d Jones said. \u201cThe fight against climate change demands that we remain vigilant against all fossil fuel extraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy said coal leasing will still get a review as part of a broad analysis of fossil-fuel leasing. But unlike oil and gas development on federal land, which Biden promised to target when running for president, a pause on selling coal rights \u201cwas not part of the commitments on the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Administration officials had planned to include coal in the order but the decision was made to leave it off the list by Monday afternoon, according to three people familiar with the matter who asked not to be named describing internal deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>One factor in the White House\u2019s decision was how it would affect litigation over then-President Donald Trump\u2019s reversal of an earlier Obama-era moratorium. Conservation groups and Native Americans last year <meta itemprop=\"type\" content=\"WebLink\">filed a fresh challenge of the Trump administration\u2019s coal leasing restart, arguing the government did not sufficiently evaluate the environmental harm of the move. That case is still pending before a federal district court in Montana.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear that a coal directive from the White House would have interfered with the ongoing litigation. And while federal coal sales have waned along with demand for the fossil fuel, the government has continued issuing new and modified leases, said <meta itemprop=\"security\" content=\"6713036Z US Equity\"><meta itemprop=\"type\" content=\"SecurityLink\">Earthjustice attorney Jenny Harbine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really important that this administration stop issuing leases that allow for infrastructure commitments for the next 20 years on federal coal when it\u2019s completely avoidable and completely unnecessary,\u201d Harbine said.<\/p>\n<p>Coal is politically treacherous terrain. Just ask former President Barack Obama, who for years was accused of leading a \u201cwar on coal\u201d by advancing policies limiting mining techniques and power-plant pollution.<\/p>\n<p>Trump used that claim on the campaign trail in 2016, highlighting miners in hardhats at his rallies and even pantomiming shoveling it out on stage. The appeal helped him notch big wins in the once reliably Democratic state of West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has largely avoided explicit talk about his plans for coal, though he\u2019s repeatedly promised that a wave of clean energy investment can put people to work in high-paying, union jobs installing wind turbines and solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Biden emphasized he would seek to \u201crevitalize the economies of coal, oil and gas and power plant communities,\u201d starting by creating jobs reclaiming old mines and revitalizing once-polluted sites.<\/p>\n<p>Coal and its workforce have politically powerful champions, including Senator Joe Manchin, the Democrat from West Virginia, now leading the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin said he expected Biden to keep his pledge to protect the jobs of workers displaced by the shift in energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI intend to hold the administration to this while ensuring that the burden of any acceleration in already changing markets is not unduly placed on these communities that powered our nation to greatness,\u201d Manchin said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p>Biden ordered the creation of an interagency working group focused on the coordinating investments and other efforts to assist communities tied to coal, oil and natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re never going to forget the men and women who dug the coal and built the nation,\u201d Biden vowed. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do right by them &#8212; make sure they have opportunities to keep building the nation and their own communities and getting paid well for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 With assistance by Ari Natter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-01-28\/coal-wins-curious-reprieve-in-biden-s-assault-on-climate-change?srnd=premium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden enlisted the entire U.S. government in the fight against climate change on Wednesday, even telling the Central Intelligence Agency to consider global [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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