coal mining
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Feds OK expansion of mine that supplies coal to Montana’s largest power plant | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
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MONTANA Feds OK coal mine expansion The federal government has authorized a nearly 1,900-acre expansion of the mine that supplies Montana’s largest power plant with coal. The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced on Aug. 6 that it has approved an expansion of the Rosebud coal mine near Colstrip that is expected to…
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Trump’s reduction of national monuments draws impassioned reactions in Colorado
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WASHINGTON – Colorado’s environmentalists and Democratic politicians blasted President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he would drastically reduce the size of two wilderness national monuments in Utah. Some asked whether federal land in Colorado would be next. “In Colorado, we value our lands because they are part of our fabric and they strengthen local economies,”…
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Gov. John Hickenlooper announces Colorado is joining U.S. Climate Alliance, sets carbon reduction goals
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Gov. John Hickenlooper on Tuesday signed an executive order committing Colorado to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with a global climate agreement rejected last month by President Donald Trump. Hickenlooper said the state is joining the U.S. Climate Alliance, a coalition of 13 states and Puerto Rico agreeing to adhere to the goals set…
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Ray Scott fires back at Hickenlooper on climate order: ‘The era of EPA overreach has ended’
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Assistant Senate Majority Leader Ray Scott, a Grand Junction Republican, swung hard at Gov. John Hickenlooper this week, criticizing the Democrat’s embrace of a “clean energy future” for Colorado in the face of President Donald Trump’s move to halt federal efforts to combat climate change. “Many Coloradans are dismayed and perplexed by the governor’s Tuesday…
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Hickenlooper declares Trump’s climate change executive order ‘will not deter Colorado’s efforts’
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Gov. John Hickenlooper declared Tuesday that Colorado will continue to pursue “a clean energy future” despite an executive order signed by President Donald Trump ending the federal government’s efforts to combat climate change. “We will keep building a clean energy future that creates Colorado jobs, improves our health and addresses the harmful consequences of a…
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Tipton tries to link Schwartz to Clinton’s ‘coal-killing’ campaign
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Leading up to the big Club 20 weekend in Grand Junction, Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton hammered home familiar themes Thursday on a long and wide-ranging conference call with reporters in which he consistently came back to his support for Colorado’s coal industry and his Democratic opponent’s coal-mine-killing policies as a state senator during former…
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Bill to shield retired miners divides coal-state Republicans
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An election-year bill to fulfill a 70-year-old government promise and protect health-care and pension benefits for retired miners is dividing coal-state Republicans, pitting endangered incumbents against GOP leaders wary of bailing out union workers. Retirement and health-care funds currently support about 120,000 former miners and their families nationwide. But account balances have dwindled amid continued…
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AP Exclusive: $90 million investment for two new coal mines
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As mines close and the coal industry faces a seemingly endless run of bankruptcies and other bad news, a company backed by a $90 million investment is defying conventional wisdom by preparing to open two new mines next year in Appalachia, the hardest-hit coal region. The mines in West Virginia and Virginia will create some…
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Two Colorado coal-fired power units to close in clean-air deal
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One coal-fired power plant in Colorado will shut down and part of a second plant will stop operating under an agreement that will make deep cuts in air pollution but cost at least 90 jobs over the next decade, officials said Thursday. The Nucla Station power plant in southwestern Colorado and its coal supplier, the New Horizon Mine, will…
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Declining energy sector jobs switching to solar field
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A program is underway in Colorado to retrain people who lost their jobs in the coal or oil and gas industry so they can get the skills they need to install solar panels. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment gave a company based in Paonia on the Western Slope a $400,000 matching grant as part of a program…
