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Tri-State Generation and Transmission, which provides power to 43 rural co-ops in four states, is facing a growing mutiny among members tired of paying for high-priced coal-fired generation.

The insolvency of Murray Energy adds to shortfalls at the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund. A company executive said the hard-earned benefit for miners is “too heavy of a burden.”

The company is prepared to for closure of the Montana plant by 2025 under a proposal that would include some community-transition money. The plant is the town’s main economic engine.

Tribal officials acted wisely in protecting Navajo Nation from $400 million in cleanup liabilities associated with the ill-advised acquisition of struggling Powder River Basin coal mines, write the authors.

Atchison County, Mo.—population 5,200—is a textbook study in how a small community can reap tax revenues, lease payments and jobs by partnering with wind energy companies.

As coal-fired plants continue to close, the retirement of one—E.D. Edwards—will include a community transition package from Vistra Energy that suggests a model for similar situations elsewhere.

Champions of coalfield communities are arguing for more aggressive enforcement of an industry-financed program that has $10.1 billion in cleanup responsibilities but is enormously under-capitalized.

Navajo Nation leaders terminated indemnification agreements that are seen as important to the viability of a tribally-owned company buying the Montana and Wyoming mine assets of bankrupt Cloud Peak Energy.

“The challenge is to ensure that these policies nurture programs and institutions with lasting effects, rather than merely offering short-term band-aids.”

The proposed Holcomb 2 plant symbolizes a fading industry. Kansas regulators have told developers either to start building it or drop the idea and move on.