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• Eastern Kentucky coal deal with India stalls

  03 Mar 2014

  In August 2012, Gov. Steve Beshear and private-sector energy executives announced a deal that woul... . ...Read More

• Coal still on rise: IEA

  03 Mar 2014

  Fatih Birol, the chief economist at the International Energy Agency, says Australian coal producer... . ...Read More

• US coal trade jumps as domestic consumption wanes

  03 Mar 2014

  The dollar value of US net coal exports has increased more than three-fold since 2005, data from t... . ...Read More

• Govt set to cap coal output, boost domestic use

  03 Mar 2014

  After flexing its regulatory muscle with the ore-export ban, the government has gone one step furt... . ...Read More

• Govt set to cap coal output, boost domestic use

  03 Mar 2014

  After flexing its regulatory muscle with the ore-export ban, the government has gone one step furt... . ...Read More

• Coal past bottom of cycle: mine-service operators

  03 Mar 2014

  They are not cheering about any explosive boom of recovery. But they are hoping for a gradual pick... . ...Read More

• Solar puts heat on coal for India

  03 Mar 2014

  For six years India's monopoly coal producer has missed its production targets, leading to chr... . ...Read More

• A bad bank for German hard coal?

  03 Mar 2014

  Germany’s power plants fired with hard coal might soon run for fewer and fewer hours each ye... . ...Read More

• Infra story has derailed; coal must be privatised: Parekh

  28 Feb 2014

  Revitalising the infrastructure sector, and energy security will be key challenges before the next... . ...Read More

• Coal imports to rise just 3.4% in FY14

  28 Feb 2014

  In 2012-13, India’s burgeoning coal imports was among the finance ministry’s key conce... . ...Read More

• NTPC eyes buyout of coal-based power projects, floats EoI

  28 Feb 2014

  NTPC, the country's largest power producer with cash balance of around Rs 17,000 crore, has be... . ...Read More

• Coal India officers threaten strike over performance-linked pay

  28 Feb 2014

  A group of Coal India Ltd (CIL) executives has threatened to go on 3-day strike from March 13 unle... . ...Read More

• Wyoming leads in CO2 per person; top coal mining state is a reluctant enforcer of emissions

  28 Feb 2014

  Turns out the worst state for carbon dioxide emissions per person isn't smoggy California or b... . ...Read More

• Asia utilities in dicey bet on cheap, low-rank Indonesia coal: Clyde Russell

  28 Feb 2014

  Many power utilities in Asia appear to be making what seems like an increasingly risky bet: that p... . ...Read More

• Falling Coal Prices Hurt Bukit Asam Profit in 2013

  28 Feb 2014

  State-controlled coal miner Bukit Asam posted lower profit last year as a result of declining glob... . ...Read More