Our comments for the Federal Coal Review are due this Thursday, July 28, 2016. (The original deadline of July 23 was changed to July 28.)

This is our last best chance to let Sally Jewell, the Department of the Interior, and the BLM know how we feel about continuing to rely on coal as a source of energy in the U.S. – and specifically to let them know our views on the Alton Coal Mine and the devastating harm it could do to wildlife and wild land if it is allowed to expand on to 3,000 acres of public land near Alton, Utah. We do not want to see this happen, so this is our chance to speak up.

The key points below were compiled by Jim Shelton, of Wild Kane County. Surely, any one of these points would be enough in itself to mean that the Alton Coal Mine…