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Mercer County Commission hears funding requests for coal show - Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Bluefield Daily Telegraph

... Coal & Mining Show is coming Sept. 10 to 12 at the Brushfork Armory ... Friends one-hour prior. Interment, Aug. 26, 2 p.m. Restlawn Memorial ...

County Council calls on Congress to increase monthly benefits for coal miners with black lung
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Mount Pleasant mine safety center, the busiest in the country, closes in August. It's unclear how many of the staffers there will relocate to ...

Mine electrician dies in accident; name released - WSAZ
WSAZ

(WSAZ) - A man has died after suffering injuries in an accident at the Marfork Processing Plant in Whitesville, according to the Mine Safety and ...

New mining technology is pointing to continuous round-clock operation on many fronts
Mining Weekly

... mine safety technology providing subsidiary A&R tracking about 75 000 people underground daily, which gives an idea of the amount of data ...

Coal Revival: “What a reason to celebrate,” Moe says at IBEW barbecue for rejuvenating coal
Pipeline Online

When you add up the in-scope and out-of-scope power workers and coal miners, between IBEW and United Mine Workers of America, that's around 1,100 ...

AI data centres' waste heat could power carbon capture and water purification, potentially ...
Chemistry World

Among the candidate uses for that heat, two stood out for their economic and environmental value: carbon capture by direct air capture (DAC) and ...

Indonesia scraps coal pricing rules after pushback from buyers - MINING.COM
Mining.com

Coal mining in East Kutai, Indonesia. (Reference image by Consigliere Ivan, Wikimedia Commons.) Indonesia scrapped rules forcing miners to sell coal ...

Bluefield Coal & Mining Show back next month after three years - WVVA
WVVA

More than 150 exhibitors will be on hand for the 25th Bluefield Coal and Mining Show next month.

US's spike in electricity use is slowing down a bit - Ars Technica
Ars Technica

Nuclear follows at 18 percent, with coal at 17. The renewables in order are wind (12 percent), solar (7 percent), and hydro (6 percent). (Numbers may ...

Feds reactivate 440-million-ton coal lease application in Wyoming's Powder River Basin
Oil City News

by Dustin Bleizeffer, WyoFile The Trump administration is advancing another federal coal lease in Wyoming, potentially opening access to 440 ...

China puts world's first 660MW double-arch coal unit into operation - Global Times
Global Times

... coal-fired generating unit, marking a significant breakthrough in high-efficiency, clean coal power technology, China Media Group (CMG) reported.

Guest post: China and India account for 87% of new coal-power capacity so far in 2025
Carbon Brief

Source: Global Coal Plant Tracker, GEM. Development has also ceased in the region. No new coal plants have been proposed in the EU since 2018 and no ...

Portland City Council bans large coal piles from city - WGME
WGME

A 45000-ton pile of coal that's been sitting near the Veterans Memorial Bridge in Portland is set to be removed in the next few years.

BLM considering leasing 177 million tons of coal for Spring Creek Mine - Billings Gazette
Billings Gazette

Emissions from surface mining were also found to be moderate. ... The BLM lease would be in addition to an approval for mining expansion made in March ...

Despite water quality fears, DEP set to add 2300+ acres on Wyoming Co. mine permit
Charleston Gazette

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is considering approving a significant expansion of coal mining operations on a mine ...

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