The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, at the direction of President Donald Trump, will file a notice this week to amend its ...

For the first time in more than 70 years, a rare earth minerals mine broke ground in the United States last Friday. The Brook Mine, owned by Ramaco Resources, near Sheridan, Wyoming, is also the first ...

Following Wyoming’s lead, Montana’s congressional delegation is pushing to reverse Biden-era BLM rules that would end coal ...

Scientists and environmentalists say such a decision harms human health and the environment, and is unnecessary.

The Powder River Basin is the state’s largest source of oil production, accounting for more than 60% of the state’s crude output, according to the Wyoming State Geological Survey.

A Wyoming company will start drilling dozens of holes in the Powder River Basin this month to explore potential to mine ...

Powder River Basin mines produced 258 million short tons of surface coal in 2022, down from 496 million in 2008, according to the Energy Information Administration. Wyoming accounts for most of ...

The Powder River Basin, a geological formation that covers much of northeast Wyoming and a portion of southeast Montana, has been the nation’s largest source of coal for decades, with production ...

Montana and Wyoming filed suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Thursday seeking to overturn the agency’s rule to end federal coal leasing in the Powder River Basin — the nation ...

The basin is the source of more than 85 percent of federally-produced coal in the U.S. In 2018, Judge Brian Morris, an Obama appointee, ruled that the BLM must redraw the plans to factor in the ...