Western senators weighed in on the toxic mines problem Thursday, launching legislation to reform the nation's 1872 Mining Law and require companies to pay fees to create a cleanup fund for abandoned inactive mines.

Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis tells the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel the train was headed from the West Elk Mine in Arco to Kentucky when one of its cars went off the rails just before 6 p.m. Saturday.

MarketWatch reported that weakness in US currency caused an increase in gold futures, in some cases up to 21%.

The Denver Post Posted: 10/18/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT The planned pollution controls on Xcel Energy's coal-fired Pawnee generating station could reach more than $300 million, according to testimony at a Colorado Public Utilities Commission hearing Mon...