HELENA, MONTANA Late Friday, Billings Federal District Court Judge Susan Watters ruled that a massive expansion of the Rosebud coal strip-mine was approved illegally. The expansion was approved in June 2019 by the federal Office of Surface Mining (OSM), and allowed Western Rosebud Mining, LLC (WRM) to strip-mine a new area, known as Area F. The court More

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