Utah’s Carbon County mine, first fast-tracked process under ‘big, beautiful’ law in the nation

Utah’s Carbon County mine, first fast-tracked process under ‘big, beautiful’ law in the nation

A Union Pacific train transports coal through Spanish Fork Canyon in Utah County on Wednesday, July 31, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)A Utah mine is set to be the first in the nation to take advantage of new federal rules expediting leases for coal production on federal land, passed as part of the congressional Republicans’ “big, beautiful bill” last month, the U.S. Department of the Interior said Wednesday. Canyon Fuel Co…