Katie Britt presses for answers on Warrior Met Coal mining application

Alabama U.S. Sen. Katie Britt pressed Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland last week on a stalled application for Warrior Met Coal in Tuscaloosa County, accusing the Biden Administration of a “bureaucratic stonewall.” During a Senate subcommittee hearing, Britt asked Haaland why Warrior Met Coal’s application to develop 24 million tons of metallurgical coal on federal lands hasn’t advanced since last May. Warrior Met is seeking to mine on a federal tract encompassing more than 5,700 acres in Tuscaloosa County. The company first began the application process in 2009 and restarted it in 2014. According to Britt, the only response…