If all the coal resources beneath the federally managed public lands in the U.S. were used, the nation wouldn’t run out for at least six centuries, a report from the U.S. Geological Survey estimates.
The Department of Interior released the report on Thursday, which estimates that there are 4.2 billion short tons of coal reserves associated with active mines and another 356 billion short tons of available coal resources.
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