Matthew Brown

U.S. Interior chief wants smaller monuments, but not at home

September 28, 2017 at 10:25 a.m.

U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has closely followed his boss' playbook, encouraging mining and drilling on public lands and reducing the size of national monuments that President Donald Trump called...

Sage grouse conservation changes draw mix of praise, alarm

August 8, 2017 at 5:40 p.m.

President Donald Trump's administration has opened the door to industry-friendly changes to a sweeping plan imposed by his predecessor to protect a ground-dwelling bird across vast areas of the U.S....

Yellowstone park cracks down on sex harassment

July 29, 2017 at 12:09 a.m.

As many as 10 workers in Yellowstone National Park's maintenance division will be disciplined after an investigation found female employees were subjected to sexual harassment and other problems.

Coal on the rise in China, U.S., India after major 2016 drop

June 27, 2017 at 12:58 a.m.

The world's biggest coal users — China, the United States and India — have boosted coal mining in 2017, in an abrupt departure from last year's record global decline for...

Coal is loaded onto hopper cars at the Spring Creek Mine near Decker, Mont., in 2013. Two companies want to mine a combined 644 million tons of coal from government-controlled reserves in Montana and Wyoming.

A look at how Trump’s climate moves affect the coal industry

June 7, 2017 at 9:03 a.m.

President Donald Trump says withdrawing from a global climate change agreement will boost the U.S. economy, but existing market forces have had far more of an effect on the fossil...

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