WASHINGTON — More than 13 million acres of federal land is open for coal leasing, the Interior Department announced Monday as part of a coordinated effort with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department to increase the domestic production and use of a fuel source that’s been declining in the U.S. for years.

The amount of land the Interior Department made available for coal extraction is triple the amount called for in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that President Donald Trump signed in July.

Trump has long prized coal as “beautiful,” “clean” and “abundant” despite much of the world moving away from the fossil fuel in favor of cleaner sources of energy such as natural gas, wind and solar. In April, he signed four executive orders — to end the moratorium on leasing feder

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