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Biggest US coal sale in a decade sees Navajo company offer

Biggest US coal sale in a decade sees Navajo company offer
business10/6/2025

A Navajo tribe-owned company has bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana on Monday in the biggest U.S. coal sale in more than a decade. The offer from the Navajo Transitional Energy C... [2514 chars]