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Making an end-run around opponents, US eyes military bases for coal exports
NBCNews.com
Few such locations can be found on the West Coast, said Joe Aldina, a coal industry analyst with S&P Global Platts Analytics. With the U.S. coal export ...

Report Calls For Capturing Carbon To Combat Climate Change. How Would That Work?
WBUR
"Negative emissions" is a term that came up in a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That report found that humans ...

MSHA awards $10.5 million in grant funds to universities, mine inspectors, and state departments
Aggregates Manager (blog)
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced that it awarded $10.5 million in grant funding to 46 states, the Navajo Nation, Guam, ...

Coal production
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
And that international demand is helping to fuel coal production growth locally. Anytime coal miners return to work, it is good news for the economies ...

Second Major Coal Company Declares Bankruptcy During Trump Presidency
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Westmoreland's Ohio mines employed at least 490 people in the second quarter of 2018, according to a review of data from the U.S. Mine Safety and ...

Asian, UK investors may beat Aussie backers for major coal listing
The Sydney Morning Herald
... coal stocks in Australia last week, Coronado is optimistic that its metallurgical assets will differentiate it in the market from thermal coal miners.

Coal production tale differs in 2 states
Beckley Register-Herald
Bluefield Daily Telegraph. It was an interesting tale of two states last week with regard to coal production in West Virginia and Virginia. In the Mountain ...

Jobs, investment surge as coal refuses to die
Courier Mail
... chief Tania Constable said the estimates in the report were conservative and suggested there was vast opportunity for Queensland's coal industry.

Sino-Dutch team claim cleaner coal-to-liquid fuel conversion
Cosmos
A Sino-Dutch research team claims to have made an important breakthrough it says improves the financial and environmental viability of coal to liquid ...

Glencore Emerging A Big Winner From Coal Consolidation
Forbes
The inconvenient truth of coal prices which refuse to fall as demanded by environmental activists and some investors and governments is proving to ...

South Africa's Exxaro looks to fill Eskom coal shortage
Reuters
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 12 (Reuters) - South African miner Exxaro Resources said on Friday it was looking to supply coal to state-owned power utility ...

Analysis: US coking, thermal coal exports rise in 2018 on India, Europe
S&P Global Platts
London — Growing export demand for US coking coal has supported prices, and rising shipment volumes into India, Brazil and Europe including ...