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The Trump administration is advancing another federal coal lease in Wyoming, potentially opening access to 440 million tons in the Powder River Basin.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management issued a final environmental impact statement Friday for the proposed West Antelope III coal lease-by-application project, spanning some 3,500 acres in Campbell and Converse counties.

The lease was originally proposed in 2015 by Cloud Peak Energy, which operated the Antelope mine at the time. But the company filed for bankruptcy and eventually sold to the Navajo Transitional Energy Company, which allowed the lease application to remain in limbo until the firm reac

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