Coal

Coal Trade

Bearish US Thermal Coal Export Market Driven by Unsupportive Pricing

Exports of Illinois Basin coal from the US Gulf Coast and Northern Appalachian coal exports through Baltimore have both slowed considerably from levels seen thi…

Coal Trade

Japan to Keep Pushing Coal in Developing World Despite Criticism

Japan will continue providing backing to new coal-fired power projects in developing countries, a government source said Monday, despite international efforts t…

Virtual power plant

Tesla's Virtual Power Plant Rescues Grid After Coal Peaker Fails

Tesla’s Virtual Power Plant project in South Australia is only around ~2% complete, but it is already proving to be a difference-maker, rescuing Queensland’s …

Coal Mine

Albanese says Australia Should Continue to Export Coal

Labor leader Anthony Albanese has backed the case for Australian coal exports amid a divisive debate on shutting down the trade to act on climate change, arguin…

Coal Trade

China's Jan-Nov Coal Imports Rise 10% on Year to 299 Mil mt; Exceed 2018 Total

China imported 299.3 million mt of coal, including thermal and coking coal, over January-November, up 10.2% year on year, exceeding its 2018 full year import vo…

Solar Company

Berlin Urged to Remove Barriers to PV

The German Solar Association (BSW) has called on the government to remove barriers to the development of new solar and storage capacity needed to replace coal a…

Coal Power

What does a Sunset Coal Industry Tell Oil Producers About Peak Demand?

Coal has been the main fuel of industrialization over the past century and a half. To this day, it remains a key feedstock for power generation and in making st…

Coal Power

Big European Banks Face Call to End Funding for Firms Building Coal-fired Plants

Some of Europe’s biggest banks are being challenged by environmental groups to sever all lending to utilities which they say are still developing new coal-fire…

Thermal coal

ANZ to Shed More than $700m in Loans to Thermal Coal Projects by 2024

ANZ has secret plans to drastically slash its lending to thermal coal mining, according to a leaked document seen by the ABC.

Coal Mine

Revealed: UK Banks' £25 billion Support for Global Coal

HSBC, Standard Chartered, Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland have continued to finance companies which are investing in new coal plants even after the Paris cl…

Coal Company

One of the Biggest U.S. Coal Companies Filed for Bankruptcy

A judge approved a bankruptcy reorganization for one of the biggest U.S. coal companies Thursday amid ongoing uncertainty about how its mines will be bonded in …

Fossil Fuel Use Continues to Push Up CO2 Emissions

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry are expected to grow slowly in 2019 due to a decline in the use of coal, according to a study by …

Global CO2 Emissions From Coal Down This Year

Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power plants and industrial facilities fell in 2019, according to research published Dec. 3, though ove…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

America And Europe Cut Emissions By Closing Coal‑fired Power Stations

Emissions of CO2 have fallen in the US and EU at the same rate this year despite their leaders having starkly different positions on the need to tackle climate …

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Indonesia Must Stop Building New Coal-fired Power Plants By 2020 to Meet Climate Goals

Achieving that goal, the IESR says, “would require that there are fewer coal plants installed capacity in Indonesia,” including “no more coal plants … built…