Reckoning in coal country: How lax fiscal policy has left states flat-footed as mining declines

Energy News Network: Rose Evenson’s mining roots run deep.

Her grandfather and uncles worked at the Homestake gold mine in Lead, South Dakota. As Homestake wound down, a lot of its miners went to work at Powder River Basin coal mines just across the border in Wyoming.

In the 2000s, Evenson and her brother followed and took jobs at Black Thunder mine — about a 1.5-hour commute from her South Dakota home in the Black Hills.

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