The mud-colored air that blankets Chinese cities these days is bad for the people who live there. It may prove unhealthy for U.S. coal producers, too. Intense opposition on the U.S. West Coast, over climate change, rail congestion and damage to Native American fisheries, already is blocking new...

Indonesia, the world’s top exporter of thermal coal, is considering new regulations to limit coal production and tighten controls on exports, government officials said on Friday, and could introduce the rules by early next month. The country currently exports around 70 percent of its coal...

“There is no skin left on my teeth to hang on with,” was the lament of a coal trader, expressing a sentiment echoed time and again at the industry’s largest gathering in Asia

Indonesia, the world’s largest exporter of thermal coal, plans to build 14 dedicated coal terminals in the islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra in a bid to curb illegal coal exports, a government official said Monday.

Thermal coal at Newcastle port in Australia, an Asian benchmark price, won’t fall below $70 a metric ton, a level already close to the cost of producing and transporting coal, traders said yesterday at a Bali conference. “Production costs have gone up,” Michael Soerijadji, PT...

President Barack Obama’s plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions left coal with a future even as the industry accuses him of trying to make the fuel obsolete. The proposal, released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency, calls for reductions in carbon dioxide pollutants of 30...

Coal plays an essential role in meeting the world’s energy needs and fueling economic growth. Coal is the world’s fastest-growing fuel and is expected to surpass oil as the largest energy source in coming years. Since 1970, global coal use has increased approximately 335 percent,...

China is the world’s fastest-growing economy, largest energy user and largest coal user.  The nation is also leading a green energy revolution by advancing state-of-the-art technology for clean electricity from coal. For full article, please click  

Rapid urbanization and modernization in China are driving an unprecedented increase in demand for energy that puts China on course to require more power than the United States and Europe combined by 2035. For full article, please click

The use of coal to meet growing energy demands in Asia is being driven by three forces: coal’s rapid scalability, its inexpensive cost, and the availability of readily accessible reserves. For full article, please click