Contest to honor teachers in Utah’s coal country
Published Sep 13, 2012 06:03PM MDT
Five teachers in Utah’s coal country will be eligible for awards of $3,500 apiece in the seventh annual Arch Coal Teacher Achievement Awards program.
The competition is open to teachers in Carbon, Emery, Sanpete and Sevier counties, the main areas impacted by the operations of Arch Coal’s Utah subsidiary, Canyon Fuel Co. LLC. The company is Utah’s largest coal producer, extracting 11.5 million tons of coal in 2011 from three mines — Sufco, Skyline and Dugout Canyon. That accounted for 58 percent...