The rise of renewable energy poses life-changing questions for Montana’s coal country. Colstrip has a century’s dependence on coal production. The Crow and Northern Cheyenne Indian reservations share the region’s Powder River Basin coal deposits. The three communities face different directions as the energy economy reacts to billions of dollars in new federal investments in renewable energy and economic development.
Part IV presents a visual tour of Montana’s coal country and the people and places that have grown up around it.
