BERRY, Ala.—The federal Bureau of Land Management, the agency charged with overseeing the nation’s coal reserves, has released a draft environmental impact statement outlining the potential effects of a proposed expansion of Warrior Met’s longwall coal mining projects in central Alabama.

The draft review concludes that the coal mining expansion—slated to be one of the largest in the state’s history—would significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to the dangerously warming climate and put nearby residents at increased risk of property damage and explosions.

Members of the public will have from June 6 to July 21—a total of 45 days— to submit comments on the 190-page draft.

Warrior Met’s mining expansion, proposed to include the mining of thousands of tons of publicly

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