Ranking Member Grijalva: DOI Report Confirms Federal Coal Program is Broken and Outdated, Highlights Need for Reforms

Washington, D.C. – Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed the release of the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) scoping report on the review of the federal coal program, which concluded that “modernization of the coal program is warranted.”

“The first phase of Interior’s coal program review tells us what the Government Accountability Office, the DOI Inspector General and others have already said: the federal coal program is broken and outdated,” Grijalva said. “If the American people are going to get their fair share and the environment is going to be protected, we need to modernize it. Selling federal coal at rock-bottom prices doesn’t just cheat the public and discourage cleaner energy sources. It unfairly harms other coal communities, including those in Appalachia, that can’t compete with an artificially undervalued resource. I call on the next administration to keep this review going and bring desperately needed reforms to the federal coal program.”

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