White House gives $27M to struggling coal communities
Wyoming, Powder River Basin, West get $450,000 in aid to offset layoffs
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Coal's preferred policy; no policy
Powder River Basin (PRB) coal producers don’t seem to be in a panic. They’re not rushing to the negotiating table with their adversaries, crafting details of a new carbon tax or cap-and-trade bill, or even attempting a major overall of the Clean Air Act to provide long-term certainty for their core operations in America.
Wyoming officials grapple with coal export ambitions while spending millions on clean coal research
In light of the Powder River Basin coal industry’s recent focus to ship more coal to China and other burgeoning Asian economies, industry officials are taking heat for not doing more to support the deployment of so-called advanced coal technologies here at home.