Coal companies look to Asia, but face port challenges.
Mining
A working group calls for reforms in advance of a green metals boom.
As National Public Lands Day approaches, Indigenous leaders discuss working with agencies to manage dispossessed lands.
In 1885, white coal miners in Wyoming Territory, murdered at least 28 Chinese men and ran the rest of the Chinese out of town at gunpoint. These artworks bring that history back to the present.
Enviromental groups had sued over the mine’s carbon impacts.
The disappearance of mining has hit many towns hard. But Raton, New Mexico is getting back on its feet.
A new book documents a catastrophe in Silver Valley.
Agency contractors were excavating debris at the old mining site when the river flooded with wastewater.
The suit is the first blow in what is likely to be a long legal fracas.
Europe and the U.S. have taken different paths in response to climate concerns and coal declines.
The group of business-owners seeks help from Washington to prevent mining north of the national park.
Lead poisoning in children is underreported nationwide, and the West’s lack of data is particularly glaring.
Former miners watch an iconic silo crumble, and discuss what it means for their community.
How the Animas River disaster forced Silverton to face its pollution problem — and its destiny.
A tangled history of profit, tragedy and unfulfilled dreams.
Federal transportation board rejected a proposed Montana railroad due to coal bankruptcies.
A more secure safety net for workers in transition means higher taxes, a tradeoff many Americans oppose.
Resource-reliant states feel pinch as fossil-fuel revenue dwindles.
Recent bills to change suction dredging regulations faltered in Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
In one of the West’s biggest arguments, the battle lines are complicated and opaque.
Q&A with photographer David T. Hanson about his new book, ‘Wilderness to Wasteland,’ which shows a dystopian side of progress.
How a small-time mining dispute in Oregon readied a network of militias for the Malheur occupation.
Pushed through Congress, the Resolution Copper deal could damage sacred Apache sites.
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