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What’s worse than burning coal? Burning wood

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How the Feds Are Ripping You Off To Benefit Big Coal

Federal coffers are missing out on what could be billions of dollars in lost revenue due to shoddy accounting work by the office that handles leases for coal mines on public land, according to a report made public today by the investigative arm of Congress.

The Government Accountability Office was asked by Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), a stalwart climate hawk, to look into whether the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management routinely sells leases to coal mining companies for far less than their market value. Investigators found that BLM agents in Wyoming (by far the country’s largest coal producer) set prices based on coal’s historic value, but, in contradiction of the department’s own rules, fail to take into account how much it will likely be worth in the future. Similar problems were found in other coal-producing states. As a result, the GAO report claims, many leases were sold far beneath their true market value, depriving taxpayers of additional royalties (which, as it stands, come to about $ 1 billion per year) that are normally skimmed from the mines’ profits.

“As a net result, the public is getting screwed,” said Tom Kenworthy, an energy analyst at the Center for American Progress who has kept tabs on Interior’s longstanding problems with coal lease valuation.

That the leases are selling for less than they’re worth seems clear; what’s less obvious is exactly how much money is at stake, since the values were never properly set in the first place (the GAO report doesn’t specify a number). A 2012 analysis of federal lease records by former New York State Deputy Comptroller Tom Sanzillo for the independent Institute for Energy Economics found that undervalued coal leases cost the Treasury $ 28.9 billion in lost revenue since 1983, or almost $ 1 billion every year. Meanwhile, analysis by Senator Markey’s office put the figure at $ 200 million, although a spokesperson would not specify the time period to which that applied, as the underlying data are considered proprietary to the Interior Department, he said.

Since 1990, the federal government has leased 107 parcels of public land for coal mining; these parcels typically account for 25-40 percent of the roughly one billion tons of coal produced annually nationwide. That adds up to a massive carbon footprint: Fossil fuels produced on public land create roughly a billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution every year, about as much as 285 coal plants.

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Obama takes on coal with first-ever carbon limits

WASHINGTON (AP) — Linking global warming to public health, disease and extreme weather, the Obama administration pressed ahead Friday with tough requirements to limit carbon pollution from new power plants, despite protests from industry and from Republicans that it would mean a dim future for coal.

The proposal, which sets the first national limits on heat-trapping pollution from future power plants, would help reshape where Americans get electricity, moving from a coal-dependent past into a future fired by cleaner sources of energy. It’s also a key step in President Barack Obama’s global warming plans, because it would help end what he called “the limitless dumping of carbon pollution” from power plants.

Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy said in a speech Friday morning to announce the proposal that, rather than damage an industry, the proposed regulations would help the industry to grow.

McCarthy pressed her case by linking global warming to a suite of environmental problems, from severe weather to disease to worsening other types of air pollution.

“We know this is not just about melting glaciers,” McCarthy said. “Climate change – caused by carbon pollution – is one of the most significant public health threats of our time. That’s why EPA has been called to action.”

However, since the proposal deals with only new power plants it will have a limited effect on global emissions of heat-trapping pollution. A separate standard for the existing fleet of power plants, the largest source of carbon pollution, is due next summer.

Despite some tweaks, the rule packs the same punch as one announced last year, which was widely criticized by industry and by Republicans as effectively banning any new coal-fired power plants.

That’s because to meet the standard, new coal-fired power plants would need to install expensive technology to capture carbon dioxide and bury it underground. No coal-fired power plant has done that yet, in large part because of the cost.

Coal, which is already struggling to compete with cheap natural gas, accounts for 40 percent of U.S. electricity, a share that was already shrinking. And natural gas would need no additional pollution controls to comply.

“It is clear that the EPA is continuing to move forward with a strategy that will write off our huge, secure, affordable coal resources by essentially outlawing the construction of new coal plants,” said Bruce Josten, the vice president for government affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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Coal Country Lawmakers Outraged Over Obama"s Energy Action

Coal country leaders are pushing back against President Barack Obama’s release of a climate action plan, which one lawmaker said would be “an unrecoverable blow” to the economy that could end a way of life for many hard-working miners.

Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia went on the attack after Obama adviser Daniel Schrag asserted that “a war on coal is exactly what’s needed,” the Charleston State Journal reported.

“President Obama failed to get his environmental agenda through Congress for a reason,” Capito said. “Despite common sense and the voice of Congress, it appears he will unilaterally forge ahead with his partisan agenda.

“By shutting down the production of coal, not only will the president make it impossible for America to become energy independent but he could deliver an unrecoverable blow to coal-rich states like West Virginia.”

Other West Virginia leaders also spoke out along with a coalition of attorneys general from  coal-producing states, noting the impact of overregulation on jobs and the economy if the coal industry is decimated amid the administration’s new energy goals.

“There is no sense in any extra-legal order by any president that will raise the price of electricity for every American. No one is served by not using the gifts and resources that God has blessed upon West Virginia,” West Virginia Republican Party Chairman Conrad Lucas said in a statement.

“It’s a time for choosing. We choose West Virginia coal. Obama chooses unemployment and higher electricity costs,” Lucas said.

Obama spoke Tuesday afternoon at Georgetown University on global warming and the need for a tougher energy policy to avert climate change problems.

Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul also criticized Obama’s energy plan, saying he would fight back and stand up for miners in his coal-rich state.

“President Obama today declared a war on coal, and thus declared a war on Kentucky jobs and our economy,” said Paul. “Whether it is through the retroactive denial of permits, onerous regulations on coal-fired power plants, or unreasonable environmental requirements, the policies of this administration are threatening the very way of life that has sustained Kentucky communities for generations.”

“As a defender of the free market and of coal, I will continue to fight back against the EPA and any other federal agency whose goal is to stifle coal production. I will continue to stand up for our miners in Washington as we continue to recognize the sacrifices they make to provide food for their families and energy for America,” Paul added.

Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch was equally blunt in his condemnation of Obama’s energy agenda, calling it “unilateral” and damaging to economic growth.

“Let’s be clear about the consequences of what the president wants to do: higher energy costs passed on to consumers across Utah and the country, and fewer jobs at time when three-quarters of the American people are living paycheck to paycheck,” Hatch said in a statement.

“That he can’t get a national energy tax through Congress shows how unpopular his plan is,” Hatch said. “Just this morning it was reported that one of the president’s advisors is urging the President to wage a ‘war on coal.’”

Hatch said, “It’s simply baffling that President Obama is proceeding with this unilateral energy policy that will hurt Americans struggling to pay their bills and get a job.”

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