The Rosebud coal mine near Colstrip is at the center of a long legal battle over air pollution and heat-trapping gas. It is slated to operate until 2039. The Interior Department has signed off on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced new leases for coal mines in three states Tuesday as part of the Trump ...

More than 50 years ago Montanans rebelled against turning our state into “the boiler room for the nation” by the now-defunct ...

Content by Montana Mining Association. Feb. 9 marks the inaugural Montana Mining Day, which honors the mines, miners and ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana on Monday in the biggest U.S. coal sale in more than a ...

U.S. officials approved a 117 million-ton expansion of a Montana coal mine after concluding that burning the fuel would have a minor impact on the nation's overall greenhouse gas emissions, according ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Amid a federal government shutdown, the Republican-held U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to open up ...

DENVER — Federal officials on Monday took a first step toward reopening vast areas of public lands in two Western states to new coal sales as part of President Donald Trump’s push to expand U.S.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved opening up Montana for more ...

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of the Interior on Tuesday approved expansion of coal mining in Montana, marking the second largest coal expansion since President Donald Trump took office in ...