Republicans in southwestern Michigan rallied the president to intervene before the J.H. Campbell coal plant closes. Now ...

China has been working to improve mine safety to prevent disasters, which happen frequently. A coal mine explosion killed 11 people in Shanxi in August 2023, a coal mine fire in southern Guizhou ...

The Powder River Basin’s two largest producers continue to be the canary in Wyoming’s coal mining industry. The 2025 first ...

Power plants in Colorado also use coal from the basin. In 2024, the Comanche complex in Pueblo used over 800,000 tons from the “Black Thunder” mine in Wyoming. Cone has been pondering this ...

US coal miner Arch Coal’s Black Thunder mine has been awarded the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) reclamation award, an accolade that president and COO Paul Lang said on ...

This July 2024 aerial shot depicts a load-out silo and the Black Thunder coal mine in the southern Powder River Basin. (Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile, courtesy EcoFlight) by Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile ...

60.4 Mt of coal produced in 2022. The mine has 1.4 Bt of proven and probable reserves. Dragline and haul truck at the North Antelope Rochelle Mine, Powder River Basin, Wyoming. [Peabody Energy] Black ...

Retired West Virginia coal miner Terry Lilly, who has black ... mine operator or company representative said a word. They were there, sitting in clusters of suits with faces like thunder.

This aerial view of the Arch Resources' Black Thunder mine in the southern Powder River Basin shows the advancing edge of surface mining operations. (Courtesy, EcoFlight) Share this: Wyoming’s two ...

A consent decree signed last week by Drummond Co. Inc., a coal mining and processing company that dates back to 1935, and the Black Warrior Riverkeeper in U.S. District Court will require the ...

Falling coal generation has pushed many mining firms ... compared to 12.3 million tons during the same period last year. Arch’s Black Thunder Mine in Wyoming, which regularly ranks as the ...

A coal miner is dead following an accident that occurred while repairs were being performed on a Black Thunder Mine dragline yesterday afternoon, officials announced Thursday morning. Law enforcement ...