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Chair Foxx on the Financial Burden Imposed on the Coal Industry
Committee on Education & the Workforce

WASHINGTON – Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to the ...

Abandoned mines pose hidden safety and environmental risks | The Week
The Week

Mine safety was thrust into recent headlines after Elizabeth Pollard, a 64-year-old grandmother, was swallowed up by a sinkhole in Unity Township, ...

MSHA Final Rule on Voluntary Standards for Electric Mine Equipment - EHS Today
EHS Today

On Dec. 9, The U.S. Department of Labor announced that its Mine Safety and Health Administration has issued a final rule that updates testing, ...

MSHA finds Logan mine operator's 'unwarrantable failure' caused miner's death
Charleston Gazette
The Mine Safety and Health Administration, or MSHA, found Logan County mine operator Mingo Logan Coal LLC caused a miner to die because it failed ...

W.Va. AG asks court to declare EPA's new rule on power plants unlawful | News
bdtonline.com

CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's office on Friday argued a challenge, asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...

Appalachian Power Outlines Options For 2 W.Va. Coal Plants
West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Appalachian Power said it can convert two of its coal-burning plants in West Virginia to 40 percent gas by 2030, 100 percent gas by 2030, ...

Hefty US thermal coal exports look set to keep climbing in 2025 - Reuters
Reuters
U.S. coal traders have exported the highest volume of thermal coal in six years over the first eleven months of 2024, and look set to ship out ...

U.S. Supreme Court denies utility effort to block coal ash rule
Southern Environmental Law Center

WASHINGTON — Today the U.S. Supreme Court denied a utility's attempt to block protections against pollution from old coal ash dumps at inactive ...

Scientists discover hidden 'gift' in toxic coal ash - Georgia Recorder
Georgia Recorder

The behemoth utility—bless its heart—plans to abandon burning coal. That's good news, too. And to Georgia Power's credit, most of its dangerous coal ...

Germany delays gas plant decision, 2030 state coal phase-out uncertain
Clean Energy Wire

“These targets are no longer viable,” Tagesspiegel wrote. As the gas-fired plants are supposed to replace coal power plants that are gradually taken ...

Supreme Court turns down Kentucky utility's request to block EPA coal ash rule
SCOTUSblog

... coal ash while a challenge to it moves forward in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The denial came just under six ...

'Not a hope in hell' nuclear power can replace Australian coal-fired power by 2040, inquiry hears
The Guardian

Baseload electricity generators, such as coal and nuclear, faced problems in Australia because the electricity network was increasingly being designed ...

Researchers turn coal into graphite for clean energy, electric vehicle batteries - Phys.org
Phys.org

Bishnu Thapaliya demonstrates the bench top reactor for converting coal into graphite for use in batteries for electric vehicles and storing ...

How advanced coal technologies can provide cleaner energy – report - MINING.COM
Mining.com

Modern coal technologies have the ability to deliver global climate goals while continuing to foster socio-economic growth, FutureCoal argued in ...

China tightens rules to curb methane emissions from coal mines - Reuters
Reuters

China will impose tougher curbs on the amount of methane released during coal extraction in an effort to reduce emissions of the powerful ...

Power generated by coal more than doubled compared to last year due to low hydro lake levels
RNZ

Electricity generation from coal was 884 GWh; a 156.5 percent increase on the same quarter last year. Coal fired generation made up 7.7 per cent of ...

Putin orders measures to support coal industry ASAP - Interfax
Interfax

MOSCOW. Dec 12 (Interfax) - President Vladimir Putin has issued orders to work out measures to support the country's coal industry as quickly as ...

Transition away from coal poses challenges for miners - Vietnam News
Vietnam News

The nation's labour structure is anticipated to change as a result of the energy transition in the country's coal industry.

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