coal mining

On today's newscast: the body of a missing man is recovered 250' below the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, a red flag fire warning is issued due to critical conditions, a Navajo/Hopi/Pima former miner advocates for removing barriers to federal funding of black lung treatment, an elusive jaguar is caught on trail-cam video in the Sky Islands south of Tucson and more.

A new federal report lists numerous problems miners face in receiving benefits. A former coal miner and advocate on the Navajo Nation says the issues it raises aren’t new to him.

The Kayenta Mine Complex on tribal lands in northeastern Arizona once supplied the coal that lit up homes in Los Angeles and pumped water to Phoenix. The mine closed in 2019, and now Navajo and Hopi people want the land returned so they can use it to graze livestock and gather culturally important plants. Mine reclamation is well underway, but the process is slow, and some worry it’s taking too long. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports.

A unique partnership is addressing a home heating crisis on the Navajo and Hopi Nations, by supplying hundreds of cords of firewood from forest…

A coal company has furloughed or laid off 101 workers at a Wyoming mine, citing reduced energy use during the coronavirus pandemic. Navajo Transitional…

The lobbying arm of the U.S. coal industry is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars in royalty relief, tax cuts and other breaks to help companies…

Montana regulators have reached a deal allowing the state to enforce environmental laws at a large coal mine bought last year by a Navajo-owned company.…

A Navajo tribal company has reached an agreement that would allow the federal government to enforce environmental laws at two coal mines in Wyoming and…

Arizona Public Service Company announced last month it’ll go carbon neutral in by 2050 and end all coal generation in the next 11 years. KNAU’s Ryan…

The new owner of two Wyoming coal mines has reached an agreement to pay $44 million in local taxes. The taxes are owed to Campbell County for production…