Montana Coal Council

The Montana Coal Board voted 6-1 on Thursday at its monthly meeting to restore a half-million-dollar grant to the Montana State University-Billings Science Building. In February, the MSU-B Foundation was told by the Coal Board’s legal counsel that they made an error with the proposed grant and were withdrawing the award...

Montana coal production is down a third this spring, and it’s a trend that doesn’t seem to be letting up.  Montana coal mines have produced 9.6 million tons of coal through May 1, down 4 million tons compared to the same four months last year...