Feds OK More Coal Extraction At Northwest Colorado Mine

DENVER (AP) — Federal regulators say operations can continue at a northwest Colorado coal mine under a plan that calls for the company to donate land for the greater sage grouse.
Lee Boughey, a spokesman for the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, said Wednesday that the Interior Department is allowing the Colowyo Coal Company to continue working reserves in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties first leased from the Bureau of Land Management in 1982.(credit: CBS)
Colowyo Coal is a