Meet the coal miner who just started a geothermal drilling business
Published on October 30, 2025
When Matt Cooper found out in 2020 that the northwest Colorado coal mine where he works would close by the end of the decade, he was pissed. Questions raced through his mind: Why didn’t the mine’s leaders fight harder to keep it open? And why was the coal industry being singled out? “Is it political?” he wondered. …