By: Jacob Orledge -November 13, 2025  • North Dakota Monitor Stacey Tschider, center, CEO of Rainbow Energy Center, speaks during the Lignite Energy Council annual meeting on Nov. 13, 2025. The panel also included Carroll Dewing, right, vice president of North American Coal, with moderator Mike Holmes, left, executive vice president of the Lignite Energy Council. (Photo by Jacob Orledge/North Dakota Monitor) A surging demand for power and the Trump administration’s embrace of the coal...

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin signs an approval of North Dakota’s coal combustion residuals permit program surrounded by Gov. Kelly Armstrong, left; EPA Region 8 Administrator Cyrus Western, top left; state Department of Environmental Quality Director Dave Glatt, top middle; and U.S. Rep. Julie Fedorchak, R-N.D., right; during a press conference at Memorial Hall inside the North Dakota State Capitol on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025. Joey Harris Federal officials are...

Dakota Gasification Company , a subsidiary of Basin Electric, recently broke the all-time world record for the amount of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) sequestered. “And we didn’t break it just once,” said Trinity Turnbow, vice president and plant manager at Dakota Gas, “we broke it three days in a row.” That new record set was 147.7 million standard cubic feet per day. Dakota Gas started sequestering CO 2 in February 2024, but since the year 2000 has been sending captured carbon dioxide to Canada...