We updated our Coal Markets Report for the business week ending June 12, 2026.

The Trump administration's efforts to boost U.S. coal mining, coal exports and use of coal in electric generation are expected to provide a short-term boost in the economic activity around the fossil fuel.

Conservative backers of the Trump administration’s climate deregulation push say they worry that delayed rulemaking and faulty lawyering may harm efforts to end greenhouse gas regulation.

Does your mine include equipment that operates on electric batteries? If so, is your fire response plan prepared for any hazardous situations that those batteries might create?

Registration for the PEM Seminar scheduled for Friday, August 7 at the Hyatt Regency in Lexington is now open!

Coal once generated more than half the electricity in the United States, but its share has fallen sharply, sliding to roughly 15 to 16 percent by the mid-2020s as natural gas and renewables took over and aging plants shut down by the dozen.