Friday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls, Montana, applies to the Powder River Basin, an area encompassing more than 15 million acres of public land in a region that produces ...

A landowners' organization said it was trying to ensure taxpayers aren't left paying for mine cleanup when it intervened Friday in Alpha Natural Resource's fight with the state over a recent ruling on ...

On a cool morning in late February, Mark Fix was up before the sun to watch the Tongue River on his ranch in southeast Montana. He was concerned that a breaching ice dam could put his cattle and ...

CHEYENNE - Powder River Basin ranchers pressed hard Thursday for more state regulation of coal-bed methane water, saying that too much of it can be a serious problem. Meanwhile, coal-bed methane ...

CASPER, Wyo.— The Northern Cheyenne Tribe, alongside Tribal and conservation groups, filed a motion today to join a lawsuit to defend the Biden administration’s 2024 decision ending new coal leasing ...

BUFFALO — The Powder River Basin is grabbing headlines after President Donald Trump’s Department of Interior announced it would reverse a Biden administration moratorium on new coal leases in the ...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management issued a “record of decision” Thursday, greenlighting the sale of 441 million tons of coal in the Powder River Basin in northeast Wyoming — the first major federal ...