Coal

Underground coal seams can burn unnoticed for years. They can also spark raging wildfires. Funding to extinguish them is limited, but a mapping effort is underway to plot the smoldering coordinates.

Talen representatives say they don’t expect restructuring to affect operations at the Colstrip coal-fired power plant, which the company owns a 30% share in.

Marathon Digital Holdings says it will move its mining servers away from the plant in Hardin to locations where it can tap non-carbon-emitting power.

The court ruled that federal regulators who authorized the expansion of the Rosebud Mine near Colstrip failed to take a “hard look” at the environmental impacts in the same way they did the economic benefits.

A new report shows groundwater levels at some sites in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin have dropped by an average of about 90 feet due to natural gas production.

Canada's plan to ban coal exports could hurt mines in Montana.

Higher natural gas prices coupled with recovering demand for U.S. coal are putting the coal industry on track for the first year-over-year increase in generation it’s seen since 2014.

Wildfires have torched almost 800,000 acres in Montana so far this year. But burns in eastern Montana’s grass and farmland and western Montana’s mountainous, timbered landscape behave very differently. Freddy Monares spoke to MTPR reporter and editor on the podcast Fireline Nick Mott about the different types of fires in Montana.

Three U.S. officials from an international transboundary regulatory group will learn more about the upstream Canadian coal mine pollution flowing into...