reclamation

The sale of the Kemmerer coal mine has hit a snag in bankruptcy courts. The subsidiary of Westmoreland that owns the Kemmerer mine and the new billionaire…

Wyoming's Environmental Quality Council has approved Department of Environmental Quality updates to how companies guarantee reclamation costs. If signed…

Way up in northern North Dakota lies an old oilfield with a problem 60 years in the making.It’s noticeable on farmers’ land, like the fields harvested by…

West Virginia has settled a suit with Alpha Natural Resources over inaccurate revenue projections included in the coal company’s bankruptcy plan. In early…

Amid a wave of historic coal bankruptcies, states like Texas and Colorado have taken proactive steps to make sure coal companies are on the hook for their…

Glance at a satellite image of northeast Wyoming, and you can’t miss the coal mines. Even zoomed out, the square-cornered grey blotches stand…

According to federal regulators, the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality did not take appropriate action against Alpha Natural Resources when it…

A judge in Richmond, VA approved coal giant Alpha Natural Resources' plan to get out of bankruptcy Thursday. The approval went through, in part, because…

A bill introduced in the U.S. Senate today by Senator Maria Cantwell (D- WA) would ensure coal mine cleanup costs would get more expensive for coal…

With three of the four largest American coal companies in bankruptcy, a federal regulator gave a blunt assessment today of potential problems with future…