BLM Accepts $793 Million For Coal Lease Sale [AUDIO]
Scientists are using computer models to gain a better understanding of what makes wildfires go. Doug Randall reports. Federal land managers say they have accepted a $793 million bid from Peabody Energy to mine a massive reserve of publicly-owned coal in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. But an environmental research group says the deal dramatically underestimates the coal's value. Click past the jum