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Surface Mining Equipment Market: Global Trends, Analysis and Forecast 2039
Fusion Science Academy
The global Surface Mining Equipment market study presents an all in all compilation of the historical, current and future outlook of the market as well ...

Warrior Met Coal releases corporate responsibility report
al.com
“While our met coal and underground mining have a minimal environmental impact compared with thermal coal and surface mining, we understand ...

South Africa: Advocacy Group Needed to Defend Coal Industry Against 'Renewables Lobby', Coal ...
AllAfrica.com
Despite its years-long "loyalty" to South Africa, the coal industry is "under attack" and needs to defend itself from the "renewables lobby", industry ...

N. Korean coal mines face dearth of managers to run them
Daily NK
Some analysts have highlighted the difficulties that North Korea's coal industry faces due to international sanctions. Lim Soo-ho, a senior researcher at ...

TVA shutters last unit at Kentucky coal plant
Chattanooga Times Free Press
Local residents and political supporters of the coal industry objected to TVA's plans to close Paradise, complaining that it would cost TVA jobs and hurt ...

Indiana House passes bill to prohibit utilities from shutting down coal plants
Indianapolis Business Journal
But some of the bill's opponents call the legislation a “coal-bailout bill,” designed to prop up the state's struggling coal industry. “A vote yes today is a ...

Activists storm new German coal plant
Energy Reporters
The coal commission, which represented the coal industry, electricity providers, politicians and environmental campaigners, called for the plant near ...

Chinese demand key uncertainty for seaborne coal market in 2020
The BRICS Post
The South African coal industry mines some 260 Mt of which some 72 Mt is exported and employs more than 86,000 miners who get R25 billion in ...

For or against? Both sides of the opencast coal mining argument
The Northern Echo
THOUSANDS of letters have been submitted in opposition to plans to extend a controversial opencast coalmine. The original application was given ...

Poland's largest coal miner facing risks when downturn strikes
bne IntelliNews
Polska Grupa Weglowa (PGG), the largest coal mining company in Poland and the European Union, is unprepared for a market downturn, a report by ...

Xcel 'sees opportunities across our system' to change coal operations: CEO Ben Fowke
Utility Dive
Xcel Energy sees "opportunities across our system" when it comes to changing the operations of its coal fleet, CEO Ben Fowke said in the company's ...

Japan Races to Build New Coal-Burning Power Plants, Despite the Climate Risks
The New York Times
Just beyond the windows of Satsuki Kanno's apartment overlooking Tokyo Bay, a behemoth from a bygone era will soon rise: a coal-burning power ...

Measures to help Wyoming coal workers recover pay move ahead
The Wilton Bulletin
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming legislative committee has endorsed two measures to help workers recover wages from bankrupt coal companies ...

ND coal production reaches 27.2 million tons in 2019
Minot Daily News
North Dakota's five lignite coal mines produced 27.2 million tons of lignite coal in 2019, which was an 8 percent drop from the 29.7 million tons mined ...

German coal mines could host 3 GW of floating PV
pv magazine International
Research institute the Fraunhofer ISE has estimated the technical potential of floating PV at mining sites in Germany at around 56 GW. With floating ...