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This Jan. 16, 2013 photo, Mike Cooley, one of 59 workers laid off from the Decker Coal mine along the Montana-Wyoming border, poses for a photo while discussing his future job prospects at his house in Sheridan, Wyo., with his wife and 2-year-old son, in the background. Hundreds of millions of tons of coal remain at Decker, in the heart of the nation's largest coal-producing region, but slackening demand prompted its owners to lay off almost half its workers this month. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
This Jan. 16, 2013 photo, Mike Cooley, one of 59 workers laid off from the Decker Coal mine along the Montana-Wyoming border, poses for a photo while discussing his future job prospects at his house in Sheridan, Wyo., with his wife and 2-year-old son, in the background. Hundreds of millions of tons of coal remain at Decker, in the heart of the nation's largest coal-producing region, but slackening demand prompted its owners to lay off almost half its workers this month. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
In this Jan. 16, 2013 photo, a coal train idles in front of the Decker Coal Mine near the Wyoming border in Decker, Mont. The mine once produced 10 million tons of coal a year "like clockwork," but is now down to less than a third of that volume as contracts dry up amid slackening demand for the fuel. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
SHERIDAN, Wyo. (AP) — Hundreds of millions of tons of coal, packed into seams up to 60 feet thick, are still to be had beneath the rock-strewn hillsides speckled with snow that rise up along the remote Montana-Wyoming border. Yet for Mike Cooley, the days …
