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  • Battle line on the northern border

    U.S. officials, federal agencies, and even Condoleezza Rice are trying to stop a Canadian coal mine near Montana's Flathead Basin.

    by Michelle Blank, May 09, 2007

  • California, here we come

    California has a lot to teach the Interior West – particularly about clean energy and water conservation

    by Paul Larmer, May 01, 2006

  • Can land trades stop a subdivision and clean up a mine?

    An ambitious land-swapping plan may help reclaim some of Mid-Continent Resources defunct mines while also protecting them from development.

    by Jon Klusmire, Jun 12, 1995

  • Citizens tackle a mining company

    Basin Resources, a coal-mining company, is ordered to pay $160,000 to a couple who claim the mine damaged their second home.

    by Jennifer Chergo, Sep 14, 1998
  • Clean coal is an oxymoron

    Clean coal is an oxymoron

    Greg Gordon says Montana's governor, Brian Schweitzer, may sound like a populist, but he's beholden to King Coal.

    by Greg Gordon, Sep 26, 2008

  • Coal company takes refuge in a blind spot

    Environmentalists on both sides of the border are up in arms over a Canadian coal company’s plans for an open-pit mine north of Montana’s Glacier National Park

    by Hilary Watts, Feb 21, 2005

  • Colorado's Coal Basin starts a new life

    In western Colorado's Coal Basin, geologist Steve Renner works with alternative high school students in the area he has been working to restore as part of a Forest Service ecosystem-monitoring project.

    by Oakley Brooks, Nov 06, 2000

  • Is help from a federal agency a "charade'?

    The Denver-based Citizens Coal Council charges the federal office of Surface Mining with being just a pawn of the mining industry.

    by Keri Watson, Sep 27, 1999

  • King coal is back

    With a natural gas shortage looming, and the encouragement of the Bush White House, energy companies are looking to coal again, and coal-fired power plants are being planned in Sigurd, Utah, and across the West

    by Tim Westby, Dec 22, 2003

  • Magic Valley Uprising

    An unusual grassroots coalition of citizen activists stops a coal-fired merchant power plant from being built in Idaho’s Magic Valley

    by Ray Ring, May 01, 2006
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