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• Coal mines target 100% output growth

  07 Aug 2019

  COAL producers in Hwange district have pledged to increase production by up to 100 percent to meet... . ...Read More

• EPA Proposes Changes to Environmental Protection Requirements for Utility Coal Ash Sites

  07 Aug 2019

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing changes to environmental protection requirem... . ...Read More

• Queensland releases five areas for coal exploration

  06 Aug 2019

  The Queensland Government is opening more land in the coal-rich Bowen Basin for exploration to fue... . ...Read More

• Glencore mine could be forced to sell coal only to Paris agreement signatories

  06 Aug 2019

  Mining company Glencore could be forced to only sell coal from a new mine in New South Wales to si... . ...Read More

• India starts fresh round of coal block auction, alongside preferential allotment

  06 Aug 2019

  India’s Coal Ministry has announced auctioning of 27 coal blocks alongside allocating 15 blo... . ...Read More

• China Taiyuan coal transaction price index down 0.25 pct

  05 Aug 2019

  China Taiyuan coal transaction price index stood at 137.90 points, down 0.25 percent week on week.... . ...Read More

• Climate Activists Win Shareholder Suit to Thwart Coal Plant in Poland

  05 Aug 2019

  The future of a major new Polish coal power plant is in doubt after a court ruled that corporate a... . ...Read More

• Blackjewel’s coal assets sold at auction

  05 Aug 2019

  Contura Energy has made a successful bid at an auction for the assets of three Blackjewel LLC coal... . ...Read More

• India expects coal capacity to swell by a fifth in three years

  05 Aug 2019

  Chief Engineer at the country’s Federal Power Ministry, Ghanshyam Prasad, said coal capacity... . ...Read More

• Glencore coal split could scratch multiple itches

  02 Aug 2019

  A Glencore coal split could scratch multiple itches. The $42 billion commodities giant is the worl... . ...Read More

• Odisha coal mine mishap: Talcher coalfield continues to remain paralysed

  02 Aug 2019

  Production and supply from Talcher Coalfields of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) remained crippled o... . ...Read More

• AGL defers Liddell, Torrens power plant closures in bid to avoid summer blackouts

  02 Aug 2019

  In 2015, AGL said its 50-year-old Liddell Power plant in the New Wales Hunter Valley would shut at... . ...Read More

• Coal mining fatality reported in Muhlenberg County

  02 Aug 2019

  An accident in Muhlenberg County on Wednesday has resulted in Kentucky’s third coal mining f... . ...Read More

• 4 killed, 3 trapped in SW China coal mine blast

  01 Aug 2019

  Four people were killed in a coal mine blast in southwest China's Guizhou Province, local auth... . ...Read More

• Moree Plains Shire Council to revisit its decade-long ban on coal seam gas

  01 Aug 2019

  MOREE Plains Shire Council will revisit its long-standing moratorium on coal seam gas next week, t... . ...Read More