Senate Democrats are pressing the Obama administration to charge mining companies for thernclimate impacts of mining and burning federal coal.rnTheir letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, led by Senate Energy and Natural Resourcesrnranking member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), is part of a long-standing effort byrnenvironmentalists and Democrats to clamp down on leasing government-owned coal to miningrncompanies.
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