By Julia Conley, Common Dreams
A federal court on Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration wrongly authorized the expansion of the Bull Mountain Underground Coal Mine, owned by Signal Peak Energy, near Roundup, Montana. (Photo: WildEarth Guardians)
“This is now a huge opportunity for the Biden administration to get it right on coal and climate,” said one advocate.
Environmental defenders on Tuesday urged the Biden administration to take advantage of a federal court ruling which declared that the U.S. Interior Department under former President Donald Trump had wrongly allowed the expansion of a coal mine in Montana—one that would have resulted in the largest coal mine in the U.S. and hundreds of millions of tons of fossil fuel emissions over a decade.
With the question of the expansion of Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountain Coal Mine now headed back to the Interior Department, said Jeremy Nichols of WildEarth Guardians, which joined other groups in suing over the expansion, “this is now a huge opportunity for the Biden administration to get it right on coal and climate.”
