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 ...

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.

Wyoming holds more than one-third of the nation’s mineable supply of coal. It produces more coal than Texas, West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Montana combined. The state’s ...

Coal cars stage for loading at the Black Thunder Mine near Wright, Wyo. Up to 100 coal trains are loaded daily in the Powder River Basin and leave day and night on railroad tracks bound for more ...

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 ...

Coal cars stage for loading at the Black Thunder Mine near Wright, Wyo. Up to 100 coal trains are loaded daily in the Powder River Basin and leave day and night on railroad tracks bound for more ...

Last year, the Powder River Basin generated 251.9 million tons of coal, accounting for nearly 44 percent of all coal produced in the United States.

GILLETTE, Wyo.—The Biden administration announced today it will end coal leasing in the Powder River Basin, the largest coal-producing region in the United States. The decision represents a historic ...

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 ...