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• Duke Energy to excavate more coal ponds in North Carolina

  24 Jun 2015

  Duke Energy announced plans Tuesday to fully excavate 12 more coal ash basins in North Carolina, i... . ...Read More

• Powder River Basin Coal Prices Rise for a 3rd Straight Week

  24 Jun 2015

  Powder River Basin PRB (Powder River Basin) coal spot prices averaged $10.25 per ton for the wee... . ...Read More

• What Do Last Week’s Falling Crude Oil Prices Mean for Coal?

  24 Jun 2015

  Oil prices drop Both West Texas Intermediate (or WTI) and Brent crude oil prices decreased durin... . ...Read More

• US Electricity Generation Rises Substantially: Who Benefits?

  24 Jun 2015

  Electricity generation rises The EEI (Edison Electric Institute) publishes electricity generatio... . ...Read More

• Sierra Club files complaint over PacifiCorp-Bowie coal deal

  24 Jun 2015

  The Sierra Club filed a complaint Monday with the California Public Utilities Commission alleging ... . ...Read More

• Panamaxes: the outlook remains negative as demand for coal is diminishing

  24 Jun 2015

  As we get closer to the end of June, we can safely say that the 1st half of the year is leaving th... . ...Read More

• Hormel Cuts Coal Emissions in China Plant

  24 Jun 2015

  The Chinese capitol of Beijing suffers from severe air pollution. It’s plagued by the emissi... . ...Read More

• Coal railings to Newcastle port terminals down 10.6% on week to 3.05 mil mt

  24 Jun 2015

  Coal volumes railed to Newcastle's Port Waratah Coal Services and Newcastle Coal Infrastructur... . ...Read More

• Wind & Solar To Replace Coal In Australia By 2040

  24 Jun 2015

  According to a new report published by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, wind and solar will supply th... . ...Read More

• Coal India Limited to streamline supplies to small units

  23 Jun 2015

  State-run Coal India on Monday said it is trying to clear procedural hurdles affecting coal suppli... . ...Read More

• Govt transfers Environment Cleanrance of 19 coal blocks

  23 Jun 2015

  The Centre has so far transferred the environment clearance (EC) of 19 coal blocks out of approved... . ...Read More

• Punjab State Power to import 6 lakh tonnes of coal from South Africa

  23 Jun 2015

  Under fire for "unscheduled" load shedding during sweltering hot conditions, Punjab'... . ...Read More

• FICCI to host meeting on theme ‘Commercial Mining of Coal: The Enablers’

  23 Jun 2015

  The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) will be hosting a meeting in as... . ...Read More

• Q3 FOB Indonesia Coal swap fall $1.12 in one month

  23 Jun 2015

  Indonesian coal swap for delivery Q3 2015 declined month on month and week over week, this past we... . ...Read More

• German E.ON, US Murray Energy set up coal, power trader Javelin

  23 Jun 2015

  German utility E.ON, US coal producer Murray Energy, and traders have together set up Javelin Glob... . ...Read More