Coal trains in the Powder River Basin stretch to more than 1½ miles long, running on the busiest line in the United States. GILLETTE, Wyo. -- To feel like a Lilliputian in Gulliver's world, tour ...

Coal produced in the Appalachian region, for example, sells for $63 per short ton, but Powder River Basin coal sells for a shockingly low $13 per short ton—$50 less per short ton.

A coal train rolls past a truck-and-shovel coal mining operation on Sept. 2, 2022, in the Powder River Basin north of Gillette. Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile ...

Today, the Powder River Basin accounts for roughly 40% of U.S. coal output, by far the most of any basin. Yet production there has plunged, falling from 462 million tons in 2011 to 324 million ...

With so much emphasis on shipping Powder River Basin coal to China through the Pacific Northwest, other markets and shipping routes might be easy to miss. But coal, including some from the basin ...

PASCO, Wash. — A railroad spokesman says about 30 cars of a 125-car coal train bound from Wyoming’s Powder River Basin to British Columbia have derailed along a route to the Columbia River ...

Powder River Basin mines that supply lower-heating-value coals — including several operated by newcomers Eagle Specialty Materials and Navajo Transitional Energy Co. — might be at greater risk ...

A dump truck hauls coal at Contura Energy's Eagle Butte Mine near Gillette, Wyoming. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File) (CN) — A federal judge has blocked Bureau of Land Management proposals that would have ...

In fact, 13 percent of all U.S. fossil-fuel emissions stem from Powder River Basin coal, which is burned in more than 200 power plants across 35 states.

BLM proposals would end coal leasing in Powder River Basin. By Scott Streater | 05/16/2024 01:39 PM EDT . The plans would stop new mining projects in the nation’s largest coal-producing region ...

The BLM chose the former. But while that decision will prevent new leases in the Powder River Basin — one of the most extensive sources of coal in the country — it will nonetheless allow current coal ...

In 2012, 16.7 million tons of thermal coal — the kind of coal that is used to generate electricity and is found in the Powder River Basin — was exported through Gulf Coast ports, according to ...