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April 7, 2017

BLM Website Photo Swaps Green Hills for a Mountain of Coal
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The Bureau of Land Management has debuted a new cover photo for its
website: a towering pile of coal. The 2004 photograph was supplied by
the Peabody Coal Company. It shows an 80-foot coal seam at an open-cut
coal mine. Until recently, the BLM website's main photograph showed two
boys wearing backpacks gazing across a wild landscape of rolling hills.
The website's new look came a week after Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke
lifted an Obama-era ban on coal mining leases on federal land.


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