Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Piles of coal outside a power plant smoke stacks Coal is stored outside the Hunter coal-fired power plant, operated by PacifiCorp, ...

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum announced new leases for coal mines in three states Tuesday as part of the Trump administration's push for more domestic energy production. Photo by Aaron ...

SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump expedited the country's first environmental review of a major coal mine project and it happens to be in Utah. "This is a critical step in unleashing the full ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Federal officials rejected a mining company’s bid for 1.3 million tons of coal beneath a national forest in Utah, marking the third proposed coal sale from public lands in the ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday he was outraged over a plea deal that settles criminal charges against the operator of a Utah coal mine that experienced two lethal cave-ins in ...

A combination of federal intervention and rising energy demand have stalled coal’s decline, but experts see little hope of a ...

The Spring Creek coal mine is seen in an aerial photograph, taken May 28, 2013, near Decker, Mont. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP) BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal officials rejected a mining ...