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Mark Sadd: Coal is dead. Long live King Coal! (Daily Mail Opinion)
Charleston Gazette-Mail
If I have read one article about the inevitable demise of coal, I have read a hundred of them. ... Yet another article about coal's decline is hardly news. ... Resources Defense Council, wrote in these pages that “he'll trot out his failed promise to revive the troubled coal .... 

Minergy awarded mining licence for Botswana coal mine
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
“This will be the first opencast coal mining licence granted by the government of Botswana, so the process was not without its challenges for both ...

Studying the health effects of underground coal dust
Mining Technology
More importantly, black lung is back on the rise, prompting the question – who wants their coal mining jobs back? A Gallup poll from March 2015 found ...

Montana Senator: Closing Coal Plant Could Hurt Bitcoin Mining Industry
Bitcoin Magazine
The crypto industry has scored another first, as a junior U.S. Senator from Montana, Steve Daines, has lobbied against the planned closure of a ...

Private equity firm plans $730 million IPO of Coronado Coal in Australia: sources
Reuters
The IPO, which is expected to value the whole company at around A$3 billion, is likely to be the biggest coal mining float in Australia since Yancoal ...

Black coal miners exhibit opens as part of conference
St. Louis American
The former coal miners and their descendants hope to bring public attention to their history and legacy. “Did you know that at the height of the coal ...

Senate passes bill to keep funding stable for safety agencies; amendment to protect MSHA coal ...
Safety+Health magazine
Meanwhile, an amendment to protect the Mine Safety and Health Administration's coal dust rule failed, but another intended to increase participation ...

West Virginia Supreme Court rejects coal-mine convict Don Blankenship's bid to run on third-party ...
CNBC
Blankenship, who served a year in prison after being convicted of conspiring to violate mine safety laws, had sought to run as a candidate of the ...

Trump takes coal proposal on tour
Washington Times Herald
“The Obama Administration put in the Clean Power Plan which really was the death knell for the coal industry,” said Bucshon. “What they were doing ...

Tampa Electric's July coal burn falls 12.8% on month, 40.6% on year: filing
S&P Global Platts
Houston — Tampa Electric saw coal burn fall to 159,839 st in July, down 12.8% from 183,229 st in June and also 40.6% lower than the 269,101 st ...

Regulators OK Xcel's Early Shutdown Of Pueblo Coal-Fired Generators
Colorado Public Radio
Colorado regulators have approved Xcel Energy's plan to retire two coal-fired generating stations in Pueblo a decade early, part of a plan to bolster ...

EPA head: New coal plant plan will 'level the playing field'
The Hill
That cooperation includes allowing coal plants the ability to stay operating past the point that they likely would retire under the Obama administration's ...

US shovels more coal exports into Asia
Nikkei Asian Review
LONDON -- U.S. coal exports to Asia surged in 2017, and there is an argument to be made for America to become an even bigger global supplier of ...

Coal suppliers urged to put South Africa first
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
Gordhan was speaking after several Members of Parliament suggested that the priority is to use coal in South Africa rather than export coal. “Is that a ...