Wyoming is joining Montana in a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management. The states say their concerns weren’t addressed in the federal agency’s latest decision to end new coal leasing in the Powder River Basin.
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The BLM ends new Powder River Basin coal leasing. Wyoming intends to sue.
The federal government is ending new coal leasing in the Powder River Basin. Wyoming is looking to the Trump administration for relief, but economists say that might not matter – the markets are unfavorable to coal.
