coal

Montana says goodbye to the king of coal...the king of coal families to be more precise. Ankney was passionate about fighting for the coal miners and their families in Colstrip.

More great news for Montana coal and high wage jobs in the state. This, after the US House passed legislation regarding the Miles City RMPA.

Coal miners south of Roundup are typically digging that beautiful clean coal out of the ground, but this week- they broke ground on a new indoor ice arena in Billings, Montana.

Get ready hockey fans, the groundbreaking for a new ice arena in Billings, Montana is coming up in just about two weeks.

This is huge news for Billings, Montana and hockey fans all across the state. They're building a new hockey rink in Billings...and even better yet- they're doing it with money thanks to the coal mine south of Roundup.

The Billings Gazette reports that the Trump administration plan to kill the Obama-Era Clean Power Plan does little for Montana’s coal industry. Colstrip, the second-largest coal-fired power plant in the West, is facing opposition on various levels that will likely close the Montana plant long before the Clean Power Plan’s prescribed cuts to carbon dioxide emissions would have been realized anyway.