The Basin accounts for 85% of federal land-produced coal, according to a news release. This land area stretches 20,000 square miles in northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana. In November ...

Wyoming’s Powder River Basin is hundreds of miles long and extends between northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana. It is responsible for producing approximately 40% of the country’s coal.

Montana and Wyoming filed suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Thursday seeking to overturn the agency’s rule to end federal coal leasing in the Powder River Basin — the nation ...

(The Center Square) – The attorneys general of Montana and Wyoming sued the Biden administration after it announced plans to halt federal coal production in the Powder River Basin. The Basin ...

A truck carrying a load of Powder River Basin coal (Photo by Dustin Bleizeffer of WyoFile). Montana and Wyoming filed suit against the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Thursday seeking to ...