also contributed to this column. * Correction, July 29, 2014: This issue brief has been corrected to clarify under what circumstances coal in the Powder River Basin is recoverable. ** Correction ...

Deckers Coal Mine, in Montana’s Powder River Basin. Credit: R. B. Taylor, U.S. Geological Survey Then ... a contributor to Writers on the Range, a column service of High Country News.

One trillion tons of coal. That is the total amount of coal in the ground in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming into Montana, according to U.S. Geological Survey estimates. Of course, just because ...

Wyoming oil and gas boosters succeeded a few weeks ago in pushing through Bureau of Land Management approvals for a massive campaign in the Powder River Basin that could see the drilling and ...

Coal trains in the Powder River Basin stretch to more than ... Move over about 200 feet. The basin's boom stems from a geologic quirk -- and tighter environmental regulation.

The Powder River Basin, a geological formation that covers much of northeast Wyoming and a portion of southeast Montana, has been the nation’s largest source of coal for decades, with production ...

Pine Ridge is an In-Situ Recovery (ISR) uranium project located in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and primed ... Venture team is developing a complete geological model (that includes 335 km ...

Last week we highlighted a plan approved by the Bureau of Land Management to drill and frack 5,000 new oil wells in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming ... t work in the geology of Converse County?