Coal

PIERRE—A state lawmaker from the home of the Big Stone power plant wants the Legislature to tell the federal government to back off. Rep. John Wiik, R-Big Stone City, is prime sponsor of a resolution asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its current clean-air...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Teachers from four states are headed to North Dakota coal country. The Lignite Energy Council says more than 120 elementary and secondary teachers from the Dakotas, Minnesota and Montana are slated to attend a seminar next week on how the coal known as...

NEW YORK — U.S. coal companies worried that the Obama administration's proposed clean-air rules will put them out of business face a bigger threat: natural gas. Shale formations in the eastern United States are yielding record amounts of gas, pushing prices of the fuel in the...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal regulators have ordered BNSF Railway to come up with a plan to ensure that power plants in Minnesota and other states will have enough coal to get them through the winter. The U.S. Surface Transportation Board cited supply problems at Minnesota Power...

PIERRE — Rather than pay for environmental upgrades, Black Hills Power is shutting three of its coal-fired electricity generation plants. The closure costs and the unrecovered investments in the plants will be submitted with the next round of rate increases the Rapid City-based...

By Aberdeen American News It is foolish to expect a young person to follow your advice and to ignore your example. It is not what you teach, but what you emphasize. Your example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing — which is sage advice when...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed to consider reviving an EPA rule that would curb emissions from coal-fired power plants, in a clash over the Obama administration's biggest air-quality effort. A federal appeals court threw out the cross-state air pollution rule last year,...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- Canadian Pacific Railway says it will "defer indefinitely" plans to extend its South Dakota-based Dakota Minnesota & Eastern Railroad network into the Powder River Basin so it can ship Wyoming coal to power plants in other states. CP said in a statement Monday...

MAPLE GROVE, Minn. (AP) -- A Minnesota cooperative recently spent $437 million to build a coal-burning power plant in North Dakota. Now it plans to shut it down. Great River Energy, of Maple Grove, says a combination of factors caused it to reconsider running the plant, about 85...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- South Dakota officials are lobbying hard against new federal regulations to curb mercury and other toxic pollution from coal-fired power plants. One of South Dakota's two coal-fired plants would be affected. Twenty-five states including South Dakota have sided...