The Sierra Club delivered more than 210,000 signatures to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) opposing a proposed expansion of a coal strip mine about 10 miles southwest of Bryce Canyon National Park. The BLM is completing an environmental review, the draft for which recommended approving expansion of the Coal Hallow Mine at Alton from private land onto 3,500 acres of federal land. BLM and Alton Coal Company officials have said they don’t expect significant effects to the park. The expansion has the support of Panguitch City as well as Garfield County to mine an ample resource and produce tangible economic benefits for the area.