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• Poland to support, develop industrial, coal mining region

  01 Jul 2015

  Poland's government, at its first ever session outside Warsaw, approved a multi-billion-euro p... . ...Read More

• Ukraine coal reserves at thermal power plants up to 1.367 million mt

  01 Jul 2015

  Reserves at Ukraine's coal-burning power plants totaled 1.367 million mt Tuesday, up 8.2% over... . ...Read More

• CNX Coal to start trading today

  01 Jul 2015

  Consol Energy Inc. has announced that it will begin trading units of its thermal coal spinoff, CNX... . ...Read More

• Coal producer Sunrise lays off miners in southern Indiana

  01 Jul 2015

  Illinois Basin thermal coal producer Sunrise Coal has laid off 38 miners at its southern Indiana u... . ...Read More

• Blackhawk Mining plans to buy some Patriot Coal assets

  01 Jul 2015

  Blackhawk Mining LLC says it plans to buy some of Patriot Coal’s assets in southern West Vir... . ...Read More

• Study: New Wind Energy Is 3 Times More Expensive Than Existing Coal Power

  01 Jul 2015

  EPA regulations are forcing hundreds of coal-fired generators to prematurely retire, but replacing... . ...Read More

• Small business units go sans subsidized coal in Bihar

  30 Jun 2015

  Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of Bihar have been going without subsidized coal since Coal Di... . ...Read More

• Coal Ministry may ask discoms to get clearances before bidding

  30 Jun 2015

  The coal ministry is set to ask the power distribution companies to arrange for all the requisite ... . ...Read More

• Additional Coal Bed Methane drilling to soon begin in China

  30 Jun 2015

  Triple Energy, Australia, is preparing to drill for coalbed methane (CBM) in China’s Heilong... . ...Read More

• Amreyah Cement Co awards coal mill contracts to Christian Pfeiffer

  30 Jun 2015

  Christian Pfeiffer Maschinenfabrik signed a contract for the delivery and construction of two comp... . ...Read More

• US coal production for the week ending 20 June

  30 Jun 2015

  Coal production in the US continued its recovery this week, up just short of 1 million short t ove... . ...Read More

• Slowing coal shipments will undercut Port of Stockton revenue

  30 Jun 2015

      Stockton’s port enjoyed record revenues and net income in the fiscal ye... . ...Read More

• Supreme Court Gives U.S. Coal a Breather Before Its Next Fight

  30 Jun 2015

  The coal industry’s Supreme Court win over President Barack Obama may prove just a moral vic... . ...Read More

• Coal stocks climb as Supreme Court strikes down EPA regulation

  30 Jun 2015

  Coal stocks rallied Monday in wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling the Environmental Protection A... . ...Read More

• Michigan, Iowa utilities to go forward with coal retirements, conversions to gas

  30 Jun 2015

  Despite the US Supreme Court's ruling Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency's... . ...Read More