A federal appeals court on Tuesday announced it will hear oral arguments in one of the first cases challenging President Trump’s energy agenda with a case focused on the environmental harm from mining coal on federal lands because of climate change.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in March in a lawsuit brought by environmentalists over the Interior Department’s coal leasing program for public lands, which they say does not take into account the program’s impact on climate change. The activists also challenged the program under the Obama administration.
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