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The issue is complicated, but interesting.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/18/us-coal-exports-idUSBRE89H0CI20121018
The issue is complicated, but interesting.
(Reuters) - Asian economies, hungry for coal, stand to gain from a U.S. program meant to keep domestic power cheap and abundant.
At issue is how much miners pay the government to tap the coal-rich Powder River Basin in eastern Montana and Wyoming. Much of the basin is on federal land.
Selling that coal cheap at a time of increasing exports across the Pacific could amount to a U.S. taxpayer subsidy for industrial rivals like China.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/18/us-coal-exports-idUSBRE89H0CI20121018