Former legislator and retired railroad worker Stan Blake says continuing rail layoffs, like the ones last week in Green River ...

Although its impact on state revenues is anticipated to be less dramatic, the federal royalty rate on new oil and gas production was also slashed.

In 1976, National Geographic asked actor Robert Redford to follow in the footsteps of the Wild West's greatest outlaws. This is what he saw.

After nearly a decade of litigation, a developer who wants to open an export terminal in Oakland, California, expects a state ...

The agency completed a review of the Black Butte mine in 28 days using “emergency” permitting procedures. The Interior Department on Wednesday completed the fast-tracked approval of a plan to expand a ...

The US Department of the Interior said on Tuesday it had approved a mining plan change for the Black Butte coal mine in Wyoming, paving the way for an additional 9.2-million tons of coal to be ...

The Trump administration approved the expansion of a Wyoming coal mine by using emergency authority to expedite the project’s environmental review to less than a month. The move Tuesday by the ...

West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection workers collect water samples from Indian Creek in Wyoming County in 2024. Photo by Erin Beck / Mountain State Spotlight In 2023, dirty mine water ...

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WRIGHT – What’s the value of a new 440-million-ton federal coal tract in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin mining district in today’s market? Pretty low, according to some Powder River Basin coal producers ...

With recent movements in technology and AI, Political Analyst Scott Mitchell talks through the potential impact it could have in Oklahoma, as the AI and energy consumption conversation grows day by ...

Crews have successfully drilled more than 18,437 feet to tap Sweetwater County’s Madison Limestone formation. The engineering feat, which took months, is a major step toward establishing what ...