BOZEMAN, Mont. - Montana Rail Link officials stood before commissioners to talk about train traffic through town, and how it's increasing. "Our volume is going to grow" said Jim Lewis with the MRL.

The number of freight trains loaded with coal that pass through Montana could significantly grow in the next several years, thanks to the planned development of new ports on the West Coast with an eye ...

Activists have protested coal trains coming through Missoula. The many projects that coal money support here are another matter. Coal is the source of the Big Sky Economic Development Trust Fund, ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - A coal group is speaking out against a proposal to expand the scope of an Environmental Impact Statement for a shipping terminal in Washington. NBC Montana told you about possible ...

A recent letter to the editor proclaimed a variety of inaccuracies regarding the anticipated impacts from coal trains traveling through Montana. The letter proclaimed that “multinational corporations ...

Since BNSF Railroad and the states of Montana and Wyoming seem hell-bent on sending many coal trains through beautiful Western Washington, and not only endangering many citizens, but despoiling our ...

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and other city and tribal leaders have formed a new coalition to oppose coal trains and coal exports in the region. At a news conference Monday, the leaders raised ...

BROADVIEW — Developers of a reactivated coal mine in south-central Montana said Wednesday they expect to start shipping fuel next week to Midwestern power plants along a new 35-mile rail line.