View from the rails: Train engineer chronicles 25 years of PRB coal
Photographer, cartoonist, worker advocate and locomotive driver Alan Nash connects people to a place, an industry and a blue-collar workforce in transition.
Powder River Basin
Hard day’s end
Some local residents call Highway 59 the ‘Coal Miner 500.’ The road between Douglas and Gillette is an artery to the beating heart of the PRB.
Expert: Coal port suit faces uphill battle to Supreme Court
Analysis
by Leave a Comment UW law professor says he will be surprised if SCOTUS takes on case regarding Powder River Basin coal shipments to Washington state.
NEPA assault will weaken Wyoming’s people, places
Opinion
by 5 Comments Plan would gut 50-year-old foundational environmental protection law and advance the authoritarian Trump administration's assault on oversight and accountability.
Is PRB coal headed for gradual decline or sheer cliff?
Analysis
by Leave a Comment Economies of scale, shifting markets and over-capacity will all play into PRB coal’s fate, analysts say.
