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• Statistics on coal’s future driven home in Appalachia

  12 Nov 2015

  No matter how straightforward academic interpretations of Pope Francis' fossil-fuel pronouncem... . ...Read More

• What’s happening after coal? Encyclical arrives amid tough times for industry

  12 Nov 2015

  As visitors enter West Virginia, billboards present the Mountain State as a region filled with rea... . ...Read More

• Surviving U.S. Power Plants Will Help Keep Coal Demand Steady

  12 Nov 2015

  If you thought that a record loss of U.S. coal-fired power generation means less of the climate-ch... . ...Read More

• Met coal prices seen steady at record low into 2016

  12 Nov 2015

  Asian buyers will probably pay $89/t for hard coking coal, used to make steel, in the three-month ... . ...Read More

• Shanxi Coking Coal to add 5 Mpta coal capacity in Liulin

  12 Nov 2015

  Shanxi coking coal Group, the largest coking coal producer in China, is expected to add 5 million ... . ...Read More

• Yangquan Coal asked to halt three coal mine projects

  12 Nov 2015

  Yangquan Coal Industry Co., Ltd, one major anthracite producer in northern China’s Shanxi pr... . ...Read More

• Beijing to phase out coal-fired heating in core areas

  12 Nov 2015

  Beijing's central Xicheng District and Dongcheng District will bid farewell to smokey coal-fue... . ...Read More

• Inner Mongolia Alax Jan-Oct coal output down 21% y-o-y

  12 Nov 2015

  Alax League in northern China’s Inner Mongolia produced a total 6.48 million tonnes of raw c... . ...Read More

• China coastal coal freight rates see decline again

  12 Nov 2015

  Freight rates for vessels shipping coal from northern China to the south saw a decline again after... . ...Read More

• China October coal output down 1.2% y-o-y

  12 Nov 2015

  China produced 316.95 million tonnes of coal in October, falling 1.2% from the previous year but u... . ...Read More

• China January-October coal industry FAI down 16.5% y-o-y

  12 Nov 2015

  China’s fixed-asset investment (FAI) in coal mining and washing industry stood at 330.1 bill... . ...Read More

• Shenhua: transitions required for clean use of coal

  12 Nov 2015

  Coal-related firms in China should make transitions for clean and efficient use of coal, said Zhan... . ...Read More

• Coal India has created more green cover than it has destroyed

  12 Nov 2015

  An arm of State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) claims that the organisation’s afforestation effo... . ...Read More

• Peak coal: Consumption falls as major economies look to renewables

  11 Nov 2015

  Peak coal may have already been reached. A new report released overnight says that the use of ther... . ...Read More

• Steel coal prices seen steady at record low into 2016

  11 Nov 2015

  The pain may not let up next year for metallurgical coal producers from Australia to the US as qua... . ...Read More