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Coal: Industry's days are far from over - News and Sentinel
News and Sentinel
“Domestic coal decreased primarily due to lower shipments of coal to utility plants, as well as lower thermal shipments to river terminals.” CSX, ...

Norfolk Southern coal tonnage up, Shell drops wind project | Business - herald-dispatch.com
herald-dispatch.com

Norfolk Southern saw its coal tonnage increase about 1% in 2024, thanks to increased shipments of coal for export markets.

Southern seeks to run coal-fired plants longer than planned - MSN
MSN

... Up Dark Countertops and Fixes Dark Kitchens · Ad. The green future of coal mining playIndicator. Simon Clark. The green future of coal mining. 34. 2 ...

West Virginia's coal story changing | | journal-news.net
The Journal
CSX, which has more miles of track than any other railroad operating in West Virginia, moved only 39 million tons of domestic coal in 2024, down from ...

Trump's vow to revive coal country met with measured hope in Appalachia - Omaha World-Herald
Omaha World-Herald

WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) — The hard-eyed view along the Tug Fork River in West Virginia coal country is that President-elect Donald Trump has ...

Man dies in Boone County coal mining accident - Yahoo
Yahoo

Steven tragically passed away after an accident at the Progress Surface Mine in Twilight, W.Va. ... The West Virginia Office of Miners' Health, Safety, ...

New FERC chairman talks electric bills, energy demand and the Mountain Valley Pipeline
Cardinal News

Mark Christie, who was named this month as chairman of FERC, grew up in coal country and spent 17 years on the Virginia State Corporation ...

Georgia Power wants to keep coal plants alive to meet electricity demand
News and Sentinel

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Power Co. says it wants to keep burning coal to meet what it forecasts as the state's increasing electrical demand.

West Virginia's environmental activist groups should not be de facto regulators - WV News
WV News

Last month, The Charleston Gazette-Mail's Mike Tony wrote an article about Community Air Monitoring and the involvement of environmental activist ...

Department of Labor Black Lung self insurance funding changes - WTW
WTW

The problem has also been worsened by mergers and acquisitions in the coal industry ... United States of America, Department of Labor, Advocates Respond ...

Emission reduction is key coal challenge, industry hears at conference - Mining Weekly
Mining Weekly

... coal industry's key challenges. Electricity and Energy Ministry special adviser Silas Zimu, in delivering the keynote address during the opening ...

Indonesia says coal climate plan 'certain' to be scrapped by US - MINING.COM
Mining.com

Coal mining in the East Kalimantan province, Indonesia. (Reference image by Consigliere Ivan, Wikimedia Commons). An international deal to wean ...

Africa's coal to power market: What does the future hold? - Mining Review Africa
Mining Review Africa

com, the global coal mining industry's market value has fluctuated significantly since 2010. “The market value of coal mining during this period ...

The coal-burning country killing the case for net zero - The Telegraph
The Telegraph

Coal miners in China. China's coal production and consumption are both set to increase in the coming years Credit: STR/AFP. Jonathan Leake. 01 ...

Coal, the Proven Path Out of Energy Poverty - Cleveland.com
Cleveland.com

Coal remains the most abundant source of electricity on this planet, accounting for 35% of the world's total electric power supply in 2022 according ...

The Coal Trader's 2025 Metallurgical Coal Outlook - Part 2 - Substack
Substack

metallurgical coal side, there are A LOT of these narratives in play. Green steel; hydrogen use; natgas-driven direct-reduced iron; flash ironmaking – ...

Power companies push EPA to weaken coal ash cleanup rules - EHN
Environmental Health News

A group of power companies is urging the Trump administration to ease federal coal ash regulations, which protect groundwater from toxic ...

India's lower coal imports mean bad news for power emissions - Reuters
Reuters

India lowered imports of thermal coal by over 5.5 million tons in 2024 from the year before, according to data from Kpler, which may seem like ...

Metallurgical coal is now also coming under attack from climate change fighters
Mining Weekly

'Coal is coal' is their argument and they are finding that the new metallurgical mine plans and expansion projects are creating a demand surplus. They ...

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