Environmental groups had opposed expanding a Montana mine previously caught up in allegations of cocaine trafficking and the ...

How about if the waste from doing it is dumped straight into mountain streams? Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are literally blasted off to access .

Three environmental groups are suing the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for approving an expansion for the Bull Mountain Mine that would open up more land for coal mining. The groups ...

Emery County’s Lila Canyon coal mine is shutting down, and the mine’s owner has notified the state that it intends to lay off its remaining ... County was Utah’s top producing coal mine ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Three environmental groups are suing the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for ...

While most of the political attention in the province has been focused on opening mines along the southern stretch of the mountain range, the existing Vista coal mine has been working to ...

offices in downtown Calgary as the second round of public hearings regarding the contentious Grassy Mountain coal mine kicked off Tuesday morning. The energy regulator is holding the hearings to ...