"No other coal deposit on the planet is so big, so close to the surface, and so cheap to mine as the rich seams in eastern Wyoming and Southern Montana."
"And that's made the Powder River Basin the locus of a national debate on how we develop our fossil fuel reserves."
The Daily Climate had the story December 9, 2013, with photos and text by Gary Braasch.
Source: Daily Climate, 12/09/2013