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• WNC and nation get a $30 million push to move ‘Beyond Coal’

  27 Apr 2015

  The Sierra Club’s national campaign Beyond Coal got word earlier this month of a $30 million... . ...Read More

• Conservation groups challenge Utah coal mining plan

  27 Apr 2015

  King Coal’s robes may be fraying at the edges, but that news hasn’t yet reached federa... . ...Read More

• Power companies using high ash coal may face legal action

  24 Apr 2015

  Thermal power plants and collieries that continue to burn high-ash content coal, better watch out ... . ...Read More

• Power consumers to save Rs 69,311 crore due to negative coal block bids

  24 Apr 2015

  Electricity consumers in the country are likely to benefit by about Rs 69,311 crore from a reducti... . ...Read More

• Coal India to use drones to assess output

  24 Apr 2015

  How much coal does Coal India produce? The buzz is that the annual production figures are often in... . ...Read More

• State Views on Coal Allottees Sought

  24 Apr 2015

   Even as the show cause notice by the Ministry of Coal to the prior allottees of coal blocks ... . ...Read More

• NERC: EPA’s Clean Power Rule Could Transform Coal Power Use

  24 Apr 2015

  Implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) proposed Clean Power P... . ...Read More

• New Rules, Cheap Energy Heighten Battle Between Coal and Gas

  24 Apr 2015

  Tough new environmental rules and cheap energy prices are heightening the battle between coal mine... . ...Read More

• Weak coal volumes help propel earnings miss at Union Pacific

  24 Apr 2015

  Union Pacific Corp said on Thursday its first quarter results were hurt by a drop in coal volumes ... . ...Read More

• Coal Waste Sites make West Virginians Worried

  24 Apr 2015

  Marsh Fork Elementary, deep in West Virginia coal country, is shut down and fenced in, a fine laye... . ...Read More

• Coal overshadows EU membership prospects of the Western Balkans

  24 Apr 2015

  EU accession for Western Balkans countries must go hand in hand with environmental and climate act... . ...Read More

• Firefighters extinguish coal fire at Ohio power station

  24 Apr 2015

  Firefighters from several jurisdictions were called in Thursday to help deal with a fire at a powe... . ...Read More

• death toll further rose to 21 in north China coal mine flood

  24 Apr 2015

   Search teams have recovered the bodies of 21 Chinese coal miners who died when the shaft w... . ...Read More

• Stable trend in international coal markets

  23 Apr 2015

  April 23: A stable trend prevailed in international coal markets on April 22 with little change in... . ...Read More

• Proposal to bring NLW coals under coking coal bracket

  23 Apr 2015

  April 23: In view of the shortage of coking coal reserves, the coal ministry is considering a prop... . ...Read More