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Coal in a fight against the free market

by Daily Inter Lake
| October 12, 2025 12:00 AM

Will the promise of “clean, beautiful coal” deliver for Montana, or has the Powder River Basin been sold a bag of beans?

It’s a question weighing heavily on coal country and the communities it supports after the largest federal auction of a coal lease in the past decade produced deeply disappointing results.

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