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EIA's Weekly Coal Markets Report

We updated our Coal Markets Report for the business week ending December 5, 2025.

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Coal’s Not Dead Yet: B&W CTO Suggests Fossil Fuels Are Back in Favor

“The result of the 2024 presidential election probably had the biggest impact on the direction the U.S. energy industry is headed right now,” Brandy Johnson, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with Babcock & Wilcox (B&W), told POWER. “It has opened up the pat

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Poll Shows Americans Want Affordable, All-of-the-Above Energy—Not the Green New Deal or Trump’s Coal Plants

New research from Third Way and Impact Research shows concern about electricity prices is at a historic high.

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USGC Energy Economy Outlook Cautiously Optimistic During Uncertainty

Despite substantial energy policy and trade uncertainty, the outlook for much of the US Gulf Coast's energy economy is "cautiously optimistic," albeit less so than in 2024, the Louisiana State University Center for Energy Studies said Dec. 10.

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NMA TV Mining Minute - December 11, 2025

This week we’ve been focusing on permitting-related legislation being considered in Congress in the final run up to the holidays.

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Caterpillar Inc. Maintains Dividend

The Board of Directors of Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) voted to maintain the quarterly dividend of one dollar and fifty-one cents ($1.51) per share of common stock payable Feb. 19, 2026, to shareholders of record at the close of business Jan. 20, 2026.

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Coal Cornerstone Corner
Europe: Paying the Price for Closing Coal (Part 1)

United Kingdom eliminated coal generation over the past decade and is now awash in social and economic problems relating to exploding electric rates.

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History of Longwall Coal Mining Mechanization

What prompted me to write this type of book is based on my involvement with Longwall Coal Mining starting in 1966 as a 15 year old kid working in a mine over 2000 feet deep in the Valleys of Wales.

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