Appeals court tosses Obama-era federal coal leasing moratorium | The Hill

Appeals court tosses Obama-era federal coal leasing moratorium  | The Hill: A federal appeals court on Wednesday axed an Obama-era moratorium on new coal mine leasing on public lands. It did so by overturning a ruling from 2022 that revived the Obama-era freeze on auctioning off federally owned lands for coal mining. In 2022, a lower court ruled that in ending the coal leasing pause, the…