• The Legacy of Coal

    Brad Evans discusses growing up poor in coal country in Wales.

  • Solar Panels are Overtaking Coal in Texas

    In March, Texas got more electricity from solar panels than from coal. That’s a big deal because Texas is a huge state with millions of people and solar is taking on the load very nicely. All the details are here: https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/texas-got-more-electricity-from-solar-than-coal-last-month Categories: Weather Blog

  • Biden Pounds Another Nail in Coal's Coffin

    The Biden administration issued a controversial new environmental rule that would ban new leases on federal lands for coal in the nation's richest coal region.

  • Coal mining death reported in Wyoming County

    Miner was operating an excavator at surface mining operation.

  • Coal dust concerns mount after Baltimore bridge collapse

    The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge blocked a critical shipping lane, leaving the small town of Curtis Bay with an open-air coal mound that's piling up. Residents worry how the stockpile may affect air quality.

  • Feds take biggest step yet to end coal mining

    Feds take biggest step yet to end coal mining (Third column, 11th story, link)

  • Biden proposes barring new federal coal at mining hub

    Welcome to The Hill's Energy & Environment newsletter {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Biden proposes barring new federal coal at mining hub The Biden administration is moving toward barring new coal leasing on public land in a major hub called the Powder River Basin. © Getty Images The administration

  • National View: Consider all energy options — including, still, coal

    From the column: "Whatever the solution is to our nation’s demand for more energy, coal availability needs to remain part of the answer. It’s plentiful. It’s inexpensive."

  • Sunderland's remarkable Tommy Pigg, the coal trimmer with a head for maths

    He was barely known outside of the street where he lived. But Thomas Pigg lived a most remarkable life and it can be shared thanks to a Sunderland historian Paul Emerson. Paul, a member of Sunderland Antiquarian Society, has researched the stories of hundreds of Wearside people of note in the last few years. Today, he told us about Tommy who couldn’t read, write or understand maths. Yet within a few years, he’d taught himself enough to become a maths teacher while his wife ran a beer house....

  • Hanna, Wyoming, struggles after coal boom went bust- Marketplace

    When times were good, Hanna, Wyoming, built a giant rec center for coal workers. Now with just 700 residents, the town can't afford upkeep.

  • Queen City Café’s Biscuits Are Hot at Burlington's Coal Collective

    Sean Richards didn't intend to open a biscuit restaurant. His plan for Queen City Café was wide-ranging — breakfast, lunch and dinner — and built around simple, seasonal wood-fired fare, including rôtisserie chickens and whole-roasted cauliflower. But almost as soon as he fired up the 10-by-12-foot oven in the former Myer's Bagels spot on Pine Street, Richards' biscuits became a thing. In the month since opening, he and his team have baked up to 150 per day in cast-iron pans, rotating...

  • Coal India, NMDC, OVL look to secure critical mineral assets abroad

    New Delhi: Public sector undertakings (PSUs) are readying a coordinated strategy to secure overseas critical mineral assets. Coal India Ltd. (CIL), National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL), besides Khanij Bidesh India Ltd. (KABIL) will be scouting for critical minerals, a top government official said Wednesday. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a workshop, union mines secretary V L Kantha Rao said PSUs with overseas offices will be given preference for...