This weekend, I ventured to the Jim Bridger Coal Mine and Generating Station outside of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The Jim Bridger mine has been a consistent target recently: In 2016, we overturned the expansion of the mine (PacifiCorp had requested a 120-acre lease that would add 738,000 tons […]
2017 was one of the most fatal years for coal miners; a shocking increase after a record low in coal miner deaths the year prior. There were fatalities across the United States, from Alabama, West Virginia, Montana, Kentucky, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. None of the fatalities were from unexpected […]
As we’ve written about before, the Powder River Basin of northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana is ground zero in the fight to defend the climate here in America. Last week, we again bore witness to the destruction unfolding in this region. On a trip to attend a hearing […]
Coal is dying, yet President Trump and his cronies are still doing everything they can to use our public lands and resource to prop up this failing industry. The latest is a resurrected plan to open up nearly 2,000 acres of National Forest backcountry so Arch Coal can […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday released its annual report on greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s largest sources of pollution, revealing that we still have enormous progress to make in cutting carbon. The big bombshell was that in 2013, greenhouse gas emissions actually increased. That’s right, increased. […]
On the heels of news that more than one billion tons of coal have been auctioned off from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming just in the last year, the Bureau of Land Management yesterday stunningly rejected a bid from Peabody Energy for one of the biggest coal […]
I wrote previously on Xcel Energy’s plans to lock into long-term coal contracts for coal that, well, didn’t seem to exist. Well, the hype continues. Most recently, Peabody Energy announced plans to invest $200 million to move its Twentymile coal mining operations in northwestern Colorado to the new Sage […]
