Editing Colstrip, Montana (section)

==Economy==
As of 2017, the majority of jobs in the city were in local and federal governments, employing 1,732 people.<ref name="Haggerty" />

The Rosebud mine produces 6-8 million tons of coal per year and employed 373 people as of 2017, while the Colstrip power plant employed 383 people. The Rosebud power plant, a municipal power plant fueled by high sulfur waste coal, employed 42 people.<ref name="Haggerty">{{Cite web |last=Julia Haggerty |date=2017 |title=COLSTRIP The Status of Key Policies and Decision Processes |url=https://www.montana.edu/energycommunities/documents/Colstrip_Status_Report-FINAL.pdf}}</ref> 

Environmental remediation of the 2 closed energy units, particularly [[groundwater contamination]] from seepage and leakage of the effluent ponds, is costly. In 2017, it was calculated as ranging from $85 million to $143 million.<ref name="Haggerty" /> With planning for decommissioning obscured from public view, there has been uncertainty  for the community.<ref name="Haggerty" />