Blizzard conditions in the Powder River Basin (PRB) of Wyoming and Montana resulted in the loss of about 170 coal train loadings on BNSF Railway March 27-April 4. Daily BNSF trains originating in the ...

The city of Oakland just lost its legal battle to stop a coal terminal from being built. Here's what residents can expect.

Unusual use of the Congressional Review Act, also being deployed in some other states, disregards years of public input, ...

GILLETTE - Two derailments in May have slowed rail traffic out of Wyoming's Powder River Basin some 10 to 20 percent and may have long-term implications for northeast Wyoming coal producers. Heavy ...

Some of the coal mined in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming comes from surface mines like this one. (Photo courtesy of Wyoming BLM via Flickr | CC-BY-SA 2.0) The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on ...

The Willamette Valley and the Columbia Gorge should not be turned into a coal chute for Asia, Milwaukie Mayor Jeremy Ferguson told more than 85 people who attended a two-hour forum about coal-carrying ...

CHEYENNE - Union Pacific has been shipping record amounts of coal out of Wyoming recently thanks, in part, to improvements the company has made in its operations, a company executive said. In 2006, UP ...