Yet, in Routt County, Peabody Energy is “unable ... “There’s an obvious decline in the number of coal mining jobs in Colorado,” the report said, urging smart advance planning to diversify ...

That has given coal miners in rural areas of Colorado hope ... Coal Foidel Creek Mine accounts for more than 6 percent of the property tax revenue in Routt County and is the top taxpayer in ...

a county commissioner from Routt County, Colo., listens in during a meeting of the Colorado Board of Education Thursday, July 7, 2016, in Denver. A tiny school district in northwest Colorado ...

Hayden town leaders, the nonprofit Yampa Valley Sustainability Council and Routt County commissioners have advocated to the ...

Most of the power to replace the last of Xcel Energy’s coal plants in Colorado, including a chronically ... Pueblo and the Hayden coal plant in Routt County. What the company calls its ...

The bipartisan group of lawmakers sponsoring the bill sees it as a bid to jumpstart nuclear energy projects throughout the state, particularly in coal ... Routt or Rio Blanco County. “Colorado ...

Colorado coal production declined somewhat ... Production at the Foidel Creek Mine in Routt County totaled about 1 million tons last year, and the King II Mine in La Plata County produced 579,605 ...

Growing up in Colorado ... Moffat County’s current class of high school freshmen graduate, in 2028, the utility company that owns Craig Station will shutter its remaining mines and coal ...

are coal mine reclamation projects while the others are hard rock mine reclamation projects. Mineral Mountain, an abandoned mining site on U.S. Forest Service and private land in Boulder County ...