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• Tall claim? Piyush Goyal says India will stop importing coal in three years

  14 Nov 2014

  India, the world's third-largest buyer of overseas coal, may be able to stop imports of power-... . ...Read More

• India’s plan to stop importing coal deals another blow to Australia

  14 Nov 2014

  In the same week that China and the US launch a historic agreement to address climate change and w... . ...Read More

• Hindalco Q2 net profit declines 78%, hit by coal levy

  14 Nov 2014

  Metals producer Hindalco Industries Ltd, the flagship firm of the Aditya Birla Group, on Thursday ... . ...Read More

• Coal Secretary to meet CIL officials

  14 Nov 2014

  Coal Secretary Anil Swarup today met the Chief Secretary of West Bengal, Sanjoy Mitra, in Kolkata.... . ...Read More

• Australia to regain coal-export crown by 2030

  14 Nov 2014

  An overnight report released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) has revealed that Australia ... . ...Read More

• Glencore shuts down coal mines for three weeks

  14 Nov 2014

  Australia's biggest coal exporter Glencore will suspend its Australian coal business for three... . ...Read More

• G20: Reality bites for coal and climate change

  14 Nov 2014

  Climate change almost forgotten in the cocoon of a coal sponsored energy forum in Brisbane... I... . ...Read More

• Australia to lay coal grogan on G20?

  14 Nov 2014

  With Abbott desperate to keep climate off the G20 agenda (because it’s not an economic issue... . ...Read More

• Coal-bound utilities predict blackouts after climate pact

  14 Nov 2014

  Chief executives of the biggest coal-burning utilities in the U.S. predict blackouts and rising po... . ...Read More

• Running low on coal, US utilities ask regulators to prod railroads

  14 Nov 2014

  Ongoing rail service problems have left power plants from Minnesota to Texas low on coal as an ear... . ...Read More

• Renewables, not coal, way out of energy poverty in Africa

  14 Nov 2014

  Coal is “essential to meet the scale of Africa’s desperate need for electricity,&rdquo... . ...Read More

• Armstrong Energy to close Lewis Creek coal mine in Kentucky by spring 2015

  14 Nov 2014

  Armstrong Energy will close its Lewis Creek underground thermal coal mine in Ohio County, Kentucky... . ...Read More

• Protectionism in China a threat to commodities imports

  14 Nov 2014

  As China lobbies world leaders to back its free trade plan at an Asia-Pacific summit this week, bu... . ...Read More

• Coal baron Donald Blankenship indicted on mine safety charges

  14 Nov 2014

  The indictment today in Charleston, W.Va., of coal baron Donald L. Blankenship, the former head of... . ...Read More

• High CV Indonesian prices ease, SA rates firmer

  13 Nov 2014

  November 13: Spot prices of Indonesian high calorific value (CV) coal softened a bit on November 1... . ...Read More