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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/05/3654898/mountain-pact-towns-challenge-coal-value/
For Western mountain towns, where climate change has shortened the
ski season, diminished the snowpack, and increased fire risks, the fair
value of coal is a serious question.
Coal, when burned, is a major carbon emitter, and is increasingly
being mined out of publicly-owned lands in the Rockies. But a group of
11 ski towns is now fighting back against cheap Western coal, the cost
of which they say is being kept low due to a federal loophole.
Organized under the Mountain Pact, the group of towns, which includes Park City, Utah and Telluride and Aspen, Colorado, sent a letter
Tuesday to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, urging her to close
the loophole, which they say costs taxpayers a billion dollars every
year in lost revenue.
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