Coal

Morris gave the land bureau up to a year to produce new resource management plans.

With temperatures and wind chills plummeting during the cold snap that is affecting a large portion of the United States this week, one question stands above the rest.

A longtime legislative leader from the Crow Tribe in Montana testified on Capitol Hill earlier this week, sending a strong message to Washington state politicians blocking Crow coal from getting to market.

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox’s office is cheering a federal court decision that occurred on Wednesday.

“Unfortunately, Governor Inslee from the state of Washington has expressed his ideological opposition to coal" - Fox said

Montana Senator Steve Daines will be hosting his second Montana Energy Summit in Billings, set for May 30 and 31, where attendees will discuss Montanan’s energy infrastructure and the good paying jobs that the industry creates.

Northwestern Energy is bringing government and energy industry officials together in Missoula for the Clean and Affordable Energy Conference at the Holiday Inn, Downtown.

This week, Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell held the first of six meetings to discuss the fate of coal-leasing in the U.S. Shelby DeMars from the pro-coal advocacy group Count on Coal Montana, says the six meetings should be expanded to include places like Montana where coal is actually mined...

Montana Senator Steve Daines took to the Senate floor on Tuesday to tout Montana's homegrown energy portfolio and the benefit to Montana's economy.

A federal judge has denied a conservation group's attempt to void a 61-million-ton coal lease that was sold to a central Montana mine.