Brooke Larsen
About Brooke Larsen
Brooke Larsen is a correspondent for High Country News and a freelance journalist writing from Salt Lake City, Utah. Formerly, Brooke was the Virginia Spencer Davis Fellow for HCN.
Coal mining jobs have lost their appeal
A mine just reopened in eastern Utah, but the industry has changed. In Emery County, for example, Wolverine’s Fossil Rock Mine reopened — but the local workforce doesn’t seem to want to go underground.