It found that coal train pollution has significant health effects ... where coal is already being transported from Utah mines by rail. The assessment specifically centers on the potential health ...

That’s conservatively estimated at 53 million tons of carbon dioxide per year — equivalent to emissions from six of Utah’s dirtiest coal plants. “The administration can halt this filthy oil train in ...

In September, a coal mine reopened in Utah’s Coal Country. But the mine’s owner, Wolverine Fuels, couldn’t find enough people to fill the estimated 350 jobs needed to staff it.

The tax-exempt bonds, requested earlier this month by Utah’s ... three dirtiest coal plants combined. Most of the crude will travel through the Colorado Rockies and then on to Gulf Coast refineries, ...

The cost to reduce smoke billowing from a fire burning deep within an abandoned Central Utah coal mine could run over $1 million, and crews can likely never put the fire out. “We’re going to ...

Coal is stored outside the Hunter coal-fired power plant, operated by PacifiCorp, in Emery County on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) In past iterations of a ...

The Utah Inland Port Authority has added a coal mine to its development plan in Carbon and Emery counties. The Fossil Rock Mine, formerly called the Trail Mountain Mine, closed in 2001.