BILLINGS, Mont.—Three workers were injured when part of an underground coal mine with a history of safety violations collapsed in southern Montana, authorities said Wednesday. The miners were about a mile inside Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountain Mine when the area where they were extracting coal caved in for unknown reasons, said Justin Russell, director […]
HANOI—The Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized nations will provide $15.5 billion to help Vietnam transition away from coal, the British foreign office said on Wednesday. The deal will be the third agreement of this type reached by G-7 nations. The group signed similar deals last year with South Africa and last month with Indonesia. An […]
This film is only available in the United States and Canada because of territorial licensing. Based on a true story, an unassuming small-town homemaker teams up with an untested lawyer to save her family from the billion-dollar coal mining company destroying their health and local natural resources.
A federal court has reimposed an Obama-era freeze on coal leasing from federal lands that former President Donald Trump axed in a bid to unlock domestic energy production, though the judge left the door open to resuming the coal leases if a more extensive environmental review is done. In a ruling on Aug. 12 (pdf), U.S. […]
Big news for international trade. India’s biggest cement producer, UltraTech Cement, is importing a cargo shipment of Russian coal—and paying for it with Chinese yuan. That’s according to an Indian customs document, reviewed by Reuters.
Energy market turmoil amid the war in Ukraine has triggered an increase in coal-fired electricity production in Europe. In Greece, an ambitious plan to end decades of reliance on low-quality coal has been put on hold—in response to a huge rise in natural gas prices.
The Netherlands is following in the footsteps of neighboring Germany and lifting a cap on production by coal-fired power stations in an effort to prevent a winter energy crisis amid a drop in gas supplies from Russia. “Because the risk of gas shortages has increased, the cabinet has decided today to withdraw the production limitation for coal-fired […]
