The Trump administration has rejected a coal industry push to win a rarely used emergency order protecting coal-fired power plants, a decision contrary to what one coal executive said the president personally promised him.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, which was conducting the study, said in a statement Monday that they were ordered to stop work because the Interior Department is conducting an agencywide budgetary review.

The Coal Markets Report has been updated for the business week ending August 18, 2017.

Exports are up 60 percent from a year ago, driving what most conservative analysts believe will be an increase of U.S. coal production of close to 60 million tons this year.

Expomin will be held from April 23 – 27, 2018 in the Espacio Riesco in Santiago, Chile.

ASX-listed Allegiance Coal said on Monday that the Stage 1 start-up costs estimated in the prefeasibility study (PFS) has reduced from an estimated $51-million to $36-million.