Debate remains polarized over newest proposed coal mine in northern Wyoming

A coal technology firm’s fight to revive coal mining at a site near Sheridan has been embroiled in controversy for nearly a decade.

But two months ago, the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality deemed the company’s revised application for a necessary permit technically complete. Since then, the agency has been accepting public comments on the proposed mine.

Over 100 comments flooded the agency by the Thursday deadline — ranging from emphatic support for the project’s economic promise, to heated opposition over concern the surrounding land would sustain permanent damage.

The company plans to build a vertically integrated “coal campus” in northern Wyoming— replete with a research complex and a manufacturing hub. On top of that lofty proposal, Brook Mining Company, a subsidiary of Ramaco, bought land near Sheridan to resurrect coal mining operations to feed the research facilities.

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