In lawsuit, feds argue coal industry can legally give to regulators’ campaigns
May 18, 2013 in The Dickinson Press
FARGO Federal lawyers concede that thousands of dollars of campaign donations from coal-mining interests to members of the North Dakota Public Service Commission “risk creating an appearance of impropriety.” Continue Reading
SHERIDAN, Wyo. Hundreds of millions of tons of coal, packed into seams up to 60 feet thick, are still to be had beneath the rock-strewn hillsides speckled with snow that rise up along the remote Montana-Wyoming border.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. Drive through the coalfields of Central Appalachia, and signs of the siege are everywhere. 
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