States Fear DOI In Talks To Set Deadlines For Coal Program's GHG Review

State and industry groups that are intervening in support of the Interior Department's (DOI) opposition to a lawsuit seeking a climate review of the department's coal lease program are concerned that the administration and environmental groups may be holding closed-door settlement talks that could result in review deadlines that are intended to bind the next administration. Paul Seby, an attorney representing North Dakota, tells Inside EPA/climate that the intervenors in the suit, Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) v....