King Coal’s reign challenged in courts, D.C.

Environmentalists sue, lawmakers use stimulus for cleaner renewables

BILLINGS, Mont. – Beneath the frozen plains of eastern Montana and Wyoming lie the largest coal deposits in the world

In recent weeks, a group of rural Montana electric co-ops abandoned a partially built 250-megawatt coal plant, ending a four-year legal campaign by environmentalists to stop the project. The co-ops plan to instead get their electricity from a natural gas plant