Federal Regulators Back Keeping Colorado Coal Mine Open

DENVER (AP) — Federal regulators have recommended that a northwestern Colorado coal mine threatened with closure partly over its impact on global warming remain open.
The Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation Enforcement issued its decision Tuesday, five days before a court-imposed deadline that congressional, state and local lawmakers had urged the office to meet to keep the Colowyo mine operating near Craig.
The Interior Department still must decide whether to