Associated Press: A Crow official says the federal government has given preliminary approval to the American Indian tribe’s plan to build one of the first coal-to-liquid fuel plants in the nation. The $7.4 billion plant would produce an initial 50,000 barrels a day of diesel, jet fuel, fertilizer or other products. The fuel would be produced from coal mined on the Crow’s southeastern Montana reservation. The BIA has told the tribe it can move forward with a plant development agreement signed …