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• Guest post: Coal price surge will not stop China’s drive to reduce emissions

  12 Jan 2017

  Wu Lixin is the deputy director of the Coal Strategic Planning Research Institute in Beijing. It i... . ...Read More

• China drafts plan to limit coal price volatility - report

  12 Jan 2017

  China has drawn up a mechanism aimed at limiting future volatility in coal prices and is seeking s... . ...Read More

• Obama Administration Report Suggests Raising Coal Royalties

  12 Jan 2017

  The Bureau of Land Management called for a broad array of reforms to its coal-leasing program, inc... . ...Read More

• Feds Release Long-Awaited Roadmap for Coal Program Overhaul

  12 Jan 2017

  Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today laid out plans for a long-overdue overhaul of the broken fed... . ...Read More

• State sets solar power target at 6,000 MW by 2021

  11 Jan 2017

  In recent years, Karnataka has been facing severe power crises with hydel and thermal power genera... . ...Read More

• Stake sale to keep Shiva Cement, ACC in focus

  11 Jan 2017

  Shares of Shiva Cement will remain in focus, as JSW Cement is close to buying out the entire promo... . ...Read More

• Did DNR kill the coal project?

  11 Jan 2017

  Has a state agency killed the proposed Millennium coal dock in Longview by denying the company a s... . ...Read More

• The Year Coal Collapsed: 2016 Was A Turning Point For Britain’s Electricity

  11 Jan 2017

  Socially and politically, 2016 was a momentous year for Britain. It was also a record breaking yea... . ...Read More

• Can West Virginia’s New Governor Save Coal Country?

  11 Jan 2017

  Jim Justice—6 feet 7 inches, 375 pounds, rumpled in the extreme—has the friendly, sham... . ...Read More

• Demonetisation uncertainty may cause cement firms to report fall in volume: Kotak

  10 Jan 2017

  In a quarter plagued by uncertainty owing to currency demonetisation, we expect mixed results from... . ...Read More

• Coal import ‘overvaluation case’: DRI’s showcause notice upheld

  10 Jan 2017

  The adjudication authority of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has passed its first o... . ...Read More

• China coal plan fuels exporters’ hopes

  10 Jan 2017

  In the final days of 2016 China unveiled its latest plan for its coal industry. After the dramatic... . ...Read More

• Eastern Coalfields Limited urges trade unions to resume coal production

  10 Jan 2017

  The ECL (Eastern Coalfields Limited) management is under tremendous pressure for early resumption ... . ...Read More

• Production resumes at Jharkhand coal mine; five bodies still under debris

  10 Jan 2017

  Even as Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) succumbed to pressure from power generation plants to res... . ...Read More

• Contraction in cement demand not as higher feared, Edelweiss terms this as ‘Buy’ opportunity

  09 Jan 2017

  Our latest survey of the domestic cement sector suggests: we as well as companies were surprised t... . ...Read More