Despite forty years of coal strip mining adjacent to the reservation, and the Colstrp l - 4 Powerplant complex, there is a 50 % unemployment rate on the reservation. (honorearth.org)
«The statistics I have from a single summer of forest fires in Rosebud County [in Montana]... [they] emitted more particulate in the air in that single season than 3000 years of coal strip,» Zinke said. (sciencemag.org)
Lighthouse Resources, the owner of a massive coal strip mine in Montana, wants to open North America's largest coal export facility in Washington State. (meic.org)