Though coal production is falling in the region, the Interior Department’s plan to halt leasing has drawn the ire of Republicans and industry. Wyoming and Montana are suing the federal ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana and Wyoming filed suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Thursday ...

A Progress Rail SD70AH and GE Transportation C45ACCTE haul a Union Pacific coal train in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming in October 2020. Bill Stephens Wyoming and Montana filed a federal lawsuit ...

Gov. Mark Gordon has made good on a threat to sue the BLM over what he calls its “narrow-minded” plan to end coal in the Powder River Basin by 2041. Filed Wednesday, the lawsuit claims the plan is ...

Wyoming and Montana filed suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Thursday seeking to overturn the agency’s rule to end federal coal leasing in the Powder River Basin — the nation ...

First on the coal industry’s agenda is to force the repeal of the EPA’s power plant rules and the BLM’s federal leasing ban in the Powder River Basin. Though Wyoming and other pro-coal ...

The coal industry continues to be one of the world’s largest suppliers of energy. In the United States alone, about half a billion short tons of coal are converted to energy every year.

and the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to end federal coal leasing in the prolific Powder River Basin. You joined more than 2,400 WyoFile members to make stories like this possible, and we are ...

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen has filed a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s plan to halt federal coal production in the Powder River Basin, a region responsible for 85% of all ...

and the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to end federal coal leasing in the prolific Powder River Basin. Gov. Mark Gordon filed suit against the BLM on Thursday seeking to overturn the coal ...