For decades, while coal from the Powder River Basin was shipped across the U.S. as fuel for electricity plants, communities in Northeastern Wyoming benefited from the industry’s tax revenue.

Depositional environment of the Late Miocene Hausruck lignite (Alpine Foreland Basin): insights from petrography, organic geochemistry, and stable carbon isotopes ... Mineralogical and geochemical ...

Utilities are back in the market for coal. Powder River Basin coal is known for its stability. Over the last decade, even as the industry contracted, its weekly spot price fluctuated by just $5 ...

Biden halts new Powder River Basin coal leasing. By Hannah Northey | 11/27/2024 01:27 PM EST . The incoming Trump administration is all but certain to reverse the move.

The Biden administration is blocking new coal mining on public lands at a major hub for the fossil fuel. Last week and this week, it released two decisions on the future of mining in the Powder ...

Wyoming has been the top US coal producer since 1986, supplying around 40% of the nation's coal from the top ten mines in the Powder River Basin. According to the Wyoming Mining Association (WMA ...

Powder River Basin mines produced 258 million short tons of surface coal in 2022, down from 496 million in 2008, according to the Energy Information Administration. Wyoming accounts for most of ...

The decision to cease coal mining in the Powder River Basin is part of the BLM Buffalo Field Office’s Resource Management Plan (RMP), a sprawling document that lays out how the agency intends to ...

One of Wyoming's top coal producing sites, the Powder River Basin, will no longer be leased after 2041, causing outrage among GOP lawmakers.

Biden administration moves to end new coal leases on federal land in Powder River Basin BY Maddie Gannon Washington, D.C. PUBLISHED 12:51 PM ET May 17, 2024 PUBLISHED 12:51 PM EDT May 17, 2024 ...