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Judge Sides with Millennium Bulk Terminals, Says State Unfairly Denied Sublease, Washington

October 30, 2017

In a win for Millennium Bulk Terminals, a Cowlitz County judge has ruled that the Department of Natural Resources unfairly denied a sublease needed for the company’s $680 million Longview coal terminal. Superior Court Judge Stephen Warning said Friday that

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Lucky Minerals Steps Up Community Relations Plan for Its Proposed Mine in Montana

October 30, 2017

After two years of loud opposition, the company that wants to look for gold in the mountains north of Yellowstone National Park is working on its image. Lucky Minerals Inc. has spruced up its website, and a new one is

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Rand Paul: Moving in the Right Direction for Kentucky Coal

October 27, 2017

For the past several years, Kentucky’s coal industry has had two top priorities when it comes to regulatory relief – rolling back the Obama administration’s power plant rule and stopping an overreaching rule on waterways near coal mining sites. Throughout

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McDowell Historian Teaches Students About Region’s Coal Mining Heritage, W. Va.

October 26, 2017

Reminders of the region’s coal mining heritage are all around, but not all children truly know about the lives their ancestors led when thousands of people worked in the coal industry, but a McDowell County historian and collector is giving

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DEQ to Hold Public Meetings for Tintina’s Black Butte Copper Project, Montana

October 26, 2017

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality is adding an additional public scoping meeting in Helena for the process of preparing an environmental impact statement under the Montana Environmental Policy Act for the Black Butte Copper Project proposed by Tintina Montana.

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Opponents Ask Montana to Suspend Permits for Hecla Mining’s Rock Creek and Montanore Mines

October 26, 2017

Environmentalists have asked Montana regulators to suspend permits for two silver mines citing concerns over the track record of the president of the company behind the proposals. Attorneys for Earthworks, the Clark Fork Coalition and three other groups on Monday

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Trump Administration Scrambles to Save Navajo Generating Station, Arizona

October 26, 2017

The Trump administration has until December to save the largest coal-fired power plant in the West, but the prospects for the plant burning coal after 2019 are questionable. The deliberations over the Navajo Generating Station in Arizona are beginning to

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Department of Energy Providing $12 Million to Advance Coal Combustion Technologies

October 26, 2017

Coal-fired power plants have been under economic pressure from cheaper, cleaner burning natural gas for years. •  The Department of Energy has awarded $12 million in funding for projects designed to aid in the cleaner combustion of coal. •  The

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Millennium Bulk Terminals Sue Washington Over Permit Denial

October 26, 2017

Backers of a coal export terminal proposed in Southwest Washington are suing state regulators over their denial of a key permit needed to build the project. Last month, the Washington Department of Ecology denied a water quality permit to the

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University of Wyoming and Clean Coal Technologies Sign Agreement to Pursue Clean-Coal Technology

October 26, 2017

Calling the technology a “potential breakthrough” in treating and marketing Wyoming coal, the University of Wyoming is partnering with Clean Coal Technologies Inc. to develop the company’s patented coal refining technology. Clean Coal’s process, which is being tested at an

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