Houston — Arch Coal sold 20.62 million st of coal in the first quarter of 2019, down 13.9% from 23.95 million st in Q4 2018 and 12.8% from 23.66 million st sold in the year-ago quarter, due to a sharp drop in Powder River Basin shipments, but were offset by record margins in its coking coal...

New York (CNN Business)China is turning to ExxonMobil to help meet its insatiable appetite for cleaner energy as the country moves away from coal. Despite lingering trade tensions between Washington and Beijing, Exxon (XOM) on Monday announced a 20-year agreement to send liquefied natural gas to...

India and Australia could both have new governments by the end of next month but they will almost certainly continue to share a common problem; how to manage the proposed $10 billion Carmichael coal mining project of India's Adani Group in the Australian State of Queensland. Elections in...

One worrying sign for the global economy: Thermal coal — burnt in power stations to generate electricity — has slumped into bear market territory, with benchmark prices around the world dropping to multiyear lows before recovering. The downturn started in Europe where falling...

TOKYO/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Japan’s Tokyo Gas said on Friday it has signed a deal with Royal Dutch Shell for the long-term supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG), partly using a coal-linked pricing formula in an unusual move for an Asian LNG buyer. This is believed to be the first time a...

(CNN)Today, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will receive "the last piece of black coal" dug from a German mine, as a symbolic gesture marking the end of the country's bituminous coal production. Hard black coal provides more heat than soft brown lignite, which also means...

India continues to endorse new coal-fired generation projects, beating a global trend of shrinking thermal projects as concerns mount on rising emissions and tightening of credit. A report released jointly by Global Energy Monitor, Greenpeace India and the Sierra Club (US) shows the number of...

The Environment Ministry said that in principle it will not sanction construction of new large coal-fired power plants nor boilers to existing facilities in line with Japan's international pledges to tackle global warming. Moves are spreading worldwide to shun facilities that burn fossil...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China added 194 million tonnes of coal mining capacity in 2018, data from the energy bureau showed on Tuesday, despite vows to eliminate excess capacity in the sector and to reduce fossil fuel consumption. Total coal mining capacity in the country was at 3.53 billion tonnes...

London — Global coal demand totaled 3.778 billion tons of oil equivalent (Btoe) in 2018, up 0.7% on the year, bolstered largely by increased use in India and Southeast Asia, according to data released Tuesday by the International Energy Agency. Coal rode the wave of increased demand from...