WASHINGTON: The US Interior Department has approved a plan by Signal Peak Energy to expand coal mining, providing exports for Japan and South Korea, according to the agency last Friday, as it responded to President Donald Trump’s energy-emergency directives.
The approval authorises the Montana-based coal company to recover 22.8 million tonnes of federal coal and 34.5 million tonnes of adjacent non-federal coal and extend the life of the Bull Mountains mine by nine years.
