Republican elected officials in Montana, who have long pushed for the continued operation of Colstrip and boosted efforts to ...

2024 COLSTRIP — A drive through Montana’s coal country starts at the Little Bighorn Battlefield and ends in an uncertain future. The road rolls over prairie grasslands of the Crow Indian ...

The expansion will allow 39.9-million tons of coal to be mined over the next 16 years. The approval marks a victory for the Spring Creek mine, which has sought for nearly two decades to boost ...

The Spring Creek Coal Mine is already the largest in Montana and will get the expansion it has been seeking for more than 20 years. On Thursday, the Department of the Interior announced that the ...

(Reuters) -The Trump administration approved a plan to expand a Montana coal mine and extend its life by 16 years, the Interior Department said on Thursday, a move aligned with President Donald ...