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• Paris pledges highlight need for high-efficiency low-emission coal power

  09 Jul 2015

  The emissions pledges by a range of countries in the lead-up to the COP21 climate negotiations in ... . ...Read More

• NYSE Suspends Trading in Walter Energy and Commences Delisting Proceedings

  09 Jul 2015

   Walter Energy, Inc. today announced that NYSE Regulation, Inc. has determined to commence pr... . ...Read More

• Peabody Sells Shuttered Australian Coal Mine

  09 Jul 2015

  U.S.-based coal miner Peabody Energy Corp. has agreed to sell a shuttered Australian mine to a uni... . ...Read More

• Australia greenlights China Shenhua coal mine on prime farmland

  09 Jul 2015

  China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd has cleared the last regulatory hurdle to build a 10 million tonnes a ... . ...Read More

• Lack of fresh business in the pacific left capesize rates moving

  09 Jul 2015

  Intermodal ship broker says in its weekly report that, a different picture from what we saw the pr... . ...Read More

• Coal price pressure to remain through 2016

  09 Jul 2015

  Polish coal miner, Bogdanka, expects 2016 sales to remain at a similar level as prices remain unde... . ...Read More

• Illegal Coal Mining Challenges Bulgarian Energy Ministry

  09 Jul 2015

  Bulgaria: Illegal Coal Mining Challenges Bulgarian Energy Ministry Photo: BGNES People formerly ... . ...Read More

• 5,000 MW extra power capacity by 2019 in the Philippines, mostly from coal

  09 Jul 2015

  The country will have over 5,000 megawatts (MW) of additional power generation capacity from 49 po... . ...Read More

• First coal project in Yangon cancelled as MoU expires

  09 Jul 2015

  The Ministry of Electric Power (MOEP) has cancelled a planned coal-fired power plant in Yangon Reg... . ...Read More

• African Energy to sell Botswana coal and power project to SA developer

  09 Jul 2015

  ASX-listed African Energy has signed a term sheet with a South African project developer to divest... . ...Read More

• States unwilling to sign agreements with coal-based power plants

  08 Jul 2015

  Even as the government is reviving stranded gas-based power plants, significant coal-based capacit... . ...Read More

• Maharashtra Pollution Control Board issues report on coal mountains in Sewri, activists fume

  08 Jul 2015

  Nearly nine months after a high court order to take up the issue of severe pollution in areas of S... . ...Read More

• High dependence on coal imports to persist

  08 Jul 2015

  Amid an improving trend in domestic coal production and the measures being taken by Coal India Ltd... . ...Read More

• Rel Power, Hindalco under scanner, SC to probe coal PIL

  08 Jul 2015

  Supreme Court has accepted the coal public interest litigation (PIL) against Reliance Power and Hi... . ...Read More

• China sets new standards for coal conversion projects

  08 Jul 2015

  China's energy regulator has released new draft guidelines for projects that convert coal to o... . ...Read More