BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. officials in the coming days are set to hold the government's biggest coal sales in more than a decade, offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming.

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U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government's biggest coal sales in more than a decade.

About 600 million tons of the fuel will be auctioned from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming

Data analyzed by The Associated Press shows most of the power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years

The sales are a signature piece of President Donald Trump's ambitions to dig and burn more coal from federal lands

The sales are a signature piece of President Donald Trump

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