Even while the White House considered different ways to extend a lifeline for coal plants and proposed a replacement for the Clean Power Plan that may soften emissions regulations, many generators still faced a difficult market.

Coal will continue to stay high on the agenda for the next five years despite much of Europe and North America phasing out the dirtiest of all fossil fuels.

Milwaukee aldermen have agreed to a financing package that will help move forward the proposed new Komatsu Mining Corp. headquarters and manufacturing facility, despite concerns that the project would not create a high enough job density at the site.

Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s Carmichael is located in Australia’s huge Galilee Basin, which covers around 250,000 square kilometers.

Fred Palmer and Steve Milloy have launched Burnmorecoal.com and they are collecting proxies, filing stockholder motions and sending letters to senior management.

The mine has been termed "illegal" by activists, since coal mining in Meghalaya, India using the ‘rat-hole mining’ technique has been banned by the National Green Tribunal in 2014.