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• Goldman, Deutsche back Coal India despite their environmental standards

  03 Oct 2013

  What does all the sustainable banking rhetoric mean if the leaders in finance won't reject coa... . ...Read More

• Coal industry receives new jolt directly from White House

  03 Oct 2013

  While America’s world-leading coal industry is already under the multiple extinction attempt... . ...Read More

• IEA urges S E Asia to improve energy effeciency

  03 Oct 2013

  As fast-growing energy use in Southeast Asia leads to a sharp rise in the region’s dependenc... . ...Read More

• Glencore Xstrata-Tohoku agree Oct-Sept term Coal price at $85.80/ton: Source

  03 Oct 2013

  Tohoku Electric Power Co. (9506.TO) has agreed to buy Australian thermal coal from Glencore Xstrat... . ...Read More

• Asia Thermal Coal: Holidays in China, India keep market quiet

  03 Oct 2013

  The Asia-Pacific thermal coal market saw light activity Wednesday amid holidays in China and India... . ...Read More

• ICE Coal Futures climb 51% on-month to record 146.7 million mt

  03 Oct 2013

  The total coal traded and cleared on the ICE Futures platform rose for the second consecutive mont... . ...Read More

• Australia boosts mineral exports, but coal targets tough

  03 Oct 2013

  Australia forecast solid growth over the next five years for two of its biggest export earners, ir... . ...Read More

• Coal to Surpass Gas in Southeast Asia Power Boom, IEA Says

  03 Oct 2013

  Coal will replace natural gas as the dominant fuel for producing electricity in Southeast Asia as ... . ...Read More

• Kenya seeks investors to build coal, natural gas power plants

  03 Oct 2013

  Kenya has invited bids from investors for the development of two power plants with a combined outp... . ...Read More

• Rio Tinto to Sell Closed Coal Mine

  03 Oct 2013

  Rio Tinto is poised to sell its Blair Athol coal mine in eastern Australia to Linc Energy Ltd., in... . ...Read More

• German Power’s Rebound Seen Ending on Coal Slide

  03 Oct 2013

  The gains that drove German power prices to their first quarterly advance in more than two years a... . ...Read More

• Big Coal buries Obama’s renewable-friendly energy regulator

  03 Oct 2013

  Anybody casting an eye down the desolate hallway of a furloughed federal department might conclude... . ...Read More

• Is coal port money fueling Republicans’ campaigns?

  03 Oct 2013

  Promoters of a giant coal export terminal, proposed for north of Bellingham, have given $40,000 to... . ...Read More

• Britain seen putting off subsea coal gasification projects

  03 Oct 2013

  Plans to burn Britain's large reserves of coal to produce gas for power plants may wait for ye... . ...Read More

• Coal prices firm up amidst restricted deals

  01 Oct 2013

  October 1: Spot coal prices of South African and Australian origin firmed up sharply on September ... . ...Read More