Alliance Resource Partners, L.P. (NASDAQ: ARLP) today announced that the Board of Directors of ARLP’s general partner approved an increased cash distribution to its unitholders for the quarter ended December 31, 2021 (the "2021 Quarter").

Days after expressing their support for nuclear energy, members of the West Virginia Senate expressed support Thursday for a bill standing up against banks that boycott doing business with the coal and natural gas industries.

U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), has issued a statement in response to the Department of the Interior canceling the Twin Metals hardrock mineral leases.

Global coal prices have shot back towards record highs as the Ukraine crisis raises expectations that European buyers will start loading up on the fossil fuel for fear that a standoff between Russia and western nations will cut off gas supplies.

A sudden disruption to Russian coal exports to Europe resulting from an escalation in Russia-Ukraine tensions would hit northwest European coal supply particularly hard.

Southern WV Community & Technical College’s Academy for Mine Training and Technologies is offering a surface mining apprenticeship class.