Trump revives large coal sales from public lands

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U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government's biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly-owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming.

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00:00I'm at the Rawhide Energy Station, a coal and gas-fired power plant in northern Colorado.

00:06The Trump administration has been helping the U.S. coal mining industry.

00:11Power plants from the west coast to the deep south use this coal for fuel,

00:16but they've been burning less and less of it over the past decade, and that trend is likely to

00:21continue. Dozens of power plants are scheduled to stop burning coal altogether over the next several

00:29years. That includes Rawhide, which is scheduled to stop burning coal in 2029. The plant will continue

00:36running using gas for fuel. Gas is cheaper and cleaner burning, but the fate of the coal mines

00:44being helped by Trump is far less certain.

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