Peabody Energy’s senior lenders, recently recommended it file for bankruptcy.
If the coal giant goes under, it would be the latest in a string of major producers to file for Chapter 11. But if you drive through one of the country’s most productive coal regions - Wyoming's Powder River Basin, dynamite blasts still shake the earth and miners in gigantic trucks are still scooping up coal. So what does bankruptcy actually mean on the ground? Our Inside Energy reporter Leigh Paterson has more.