Kayla Desroches
Kayla Desroches reports for Yellowstone Public Radio in Billings. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and stayed in the city for college, where she hosted a radio show that featured serialized dramas like the Shadow and Suspense. In her pathway to full employment, she interned at WNYC in New York City and KTOO in Juneau, Alaska. She then spent a few years on the island of Kodiak, Alaska, where she transitioned from reporter to news director before moving to Montana.
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Higher natural gas prices coupled with recovering demand for U.S. coal are putting the coal industry on track for the first year-over-year increase in generation it’s seen since 2014. -
As the Biden administration prepares to negotiate reductions in fossil fuel use at the Glasgow climate summit at the end of the month, U.S. coal production is actually up significantly this year.
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Four out-of-state owners of the coal-fired power plant in Colstrip received temporary protection Wednesday from a Montana law the companies say inhibits them from making plans to close the plant’s two remaining units.
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The state of Montana is seeking exceptions to federal air pollution standards in northwest Montana due to wildfire smoke in 2020.
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Montana electric utility regulators won’t allow NorthWestern Energy to increase what it charges for power outside of the regular process for seeking the change.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce is directing several million dollars to help with workforce and industry diversification in southeast Montana’s coal country.
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Great Falls High School is suspending in-person classes for the rest of the week due to a rise in COVID-19 cases.
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Montana is one of the 50 states that saw surveys pile up during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A shuttered southwest Montana gold mine that plans to extract metals from its mining waste is one step closer to state approval Friday.
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The legal push and pull between the Biden Administration and oil industry stakeholders continues after a district court judge ordered the administration to remove a pause on new oil and gas lease sales on public lands.
