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The coal industry has been suffering after natural gas prices dropped dramatically last year, but Peabody Energy Chairman and CEO Gregory Boyce said today that demand for coal from two major U.S. basins is expected to grow in the coming years.

The National Weather Service Forecast Office in Riverton said Tuesday that several dry cold fronts will bring cooler, but still above normal, temperatures to the region today, after a day in which most areas recorded, or tied, their record high temperature for the day.

Arete Industries, Inc. is an oil and gas company, based in the US. The company owns and operates a natural gas gathering system in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.

Last month, Earth Day came and went. Perhaps you missed hearing about it. For 2013, the theme was "The Face of Climate Change." Other than a change in the Post Office cancellation mark on your letters from the usual wavy lines, to the four stick-like wind turbines and a sun symbol, there was little note of what was once an event celebrated by 20 ... (more)

Opposition to plans to move coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana to Asia via Northwest terminals remains intense, and has apparently drawn a response.

Federal officials in Washington might further obstruct the expansion of existing ports in the Northwest which are expected to open up the Asian market for Powder River Basin coal, bringing private This item is available in full to subscribers.

The desert city has exploded over the past few decades, sprawling into the desert-even as a growing population and worsening drought shrink nearby Lake Mead.

Uranerz Energy Corporation is pleased to provide an update on Company activities.

The American economy has some basic problems. We need more well-paid jobs, increased revenue, and our trade balance is out of whack.

Last year, overall coal production in the U.S. fell 7% from a year earlier, with the biggest decline in Wyoming's Powder River Basin and in Central Appalachia mines of West Virginia and eastern Kentucky.

Despite some dip in coal production in the Powder River Basin, the local coal industry has a lot to look forward to, said Vic Svec, Peabody's senior vice president for investor relations and This item is available in full to subscribers.

The U.S. Department of Energy is withholding records involving a Wyoming carbon-capture project on the grounds that a legal investigation is under way and that releasing documents could compromise the probe.

It is the family values of ethical business that put Powder River Office Supply on the list of nominees for the Northern Colorado and Wyoming Better Business Bureau 2013 Torch Awards.

April 26--A scathing report issued Thursday by the Western Organization of Research Councils says water used in the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is reaching a crisis point in Western states.

A shovel prepares to dump a load of coal into a 320-ton truck at the Black Thunder Mine, located within Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the nation'A ATMs most productive coal region.

A long-view of coal-export facilities weaves together who is paying for what, the spectrum of environmental impacts, and forecasting where the country will be a generation from now.

The Powder River Rousta'Bout It Betties roller derby team will host its season opener against the Gallatin Roller Girlz from Bozeman, Mont., on Saturday at the Rockpile Ice Arena.