Coal Mining News
Lawmakers advance coal plant tax break
Amid much skepticism, a legislative committee voted this week to take up a draft bill that would add “oxy-combustion” coal-fired power plants to an existing sales-and-use tax exemption for the power industry.....(11/13/09)
King Coal Most of the world’s strip-mining is done with Milwaukee-made machines. Few metro-area economies are more dependent on coal.
LJ Turner is a classic, modern-day cowboy. His family has owned a cattle ranch in Campbell County, Wyo., since 1918. For years, he leased thousands of acres of federal land as summer pasture for his cows. But now the land has been taken from him and is being leased to coal mines.....(10/26/09)
EPA chief: Wyo. will remain energy king Wyoming will remain at the heart of the national energy production as the nation turns to cleaner energy solutions,
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said during a visit to Gillette on Thursday.....(05/22/09)
Group: Look at climate change in coal EIS
An environmental group wants the Bureau of Land Management to include a broader analysis of the climate change impacts on the Powder River Basin before it issues more coal leases.....(11-21-08)