Environmental restrictions

Environmental restrictions
  In reference to coal accessibility, land-use restrictions that constrain, postpone, or prohibit mining in order to protect environmental resources of an area; for example, surface- or ground water quality, air quality affected by mining, or plants or animals or their habitats.
  U.S. Dept. of Energy, Energy Information Administration's Energy Glossary

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