By Peter Gartrell WRITERS ON THE RANGE The coal mining industry reacted with outrage when the Bureau of Land Management recently announced plans to stop issuing...
ASSOCIATED PRESS CASPER, Wyo. – Climate change is a man-made problem, but the solution doesn’t have to come at the expense of fossil fuels, said Wyoming Gov. Mark...
GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) – A company working on a process intended to produce cleaner-burning coal plans to begin operating its new test plant in northeast Wyoming...
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – Crews are removing 31 mangled rail cars and more than 3,500 tons of coal along a 200-foot section of riverbank on the...
By Matthew Brown Associated Press BILLINGS (AP) – A federal judge has blocked a proposed 176-million ton (159 million-metric ton) expansion of a central Montana coal mine...
By Todd Wilkinson EBS Environmental Columnist Former Vice President Al Gore is back on the big screen with a follow-up to his 2006 Academy-award-winning documentary “An Inconvenient...
By Todd Wilkinson EBS Environmental Columnist Pretending they were cowboys, Vice President Mike Pence, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, and U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana donned...
By Matthew Daly Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke says he would never sell, give away or transfer public lands, a crucial stance in...
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) – Gillette-based Cloud Peak Energy will again export coal to Asia, a positive sign in a troubled industry. Some coal companies filed for...
BILLINGS (AP) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has favorably reviewed a proposal to ship coal from Montana and Wyoming out of a Washington port....