News reporter Hattison Rensberry brings listeners Thursday’s news including: the Sierra Club says a coal mine on the other side of McClure Pass is being operated without a permit – and is a serious emitter of potent greenhouse gasses. Also, school meal debt in the Rifle-based R E 2 district continues to climb and national support for the mineral withdrawal of Thompson Divide. Additionally, CMC's Board of Trustees is now award-winning, and the federal government has been looking for solutions to the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous people, but progress has been slow.