http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/04/1236146/-Big-BLM-Coal-lease-sale-draws-ZERO-bids-The-BLM-can-t-give-this-stuff-away
With the price of coal mired in a four-year slump with no end in sight, it increasingly makes no economic sense for coal companies to extract the resource and bring it to market. At the same time, Americans are demanding action on coal pollution, and clean energy is cheaper in most places in this country
