The Weekly Production / Consumption Report: Week 48 (Nov. 29) has been posted.

International credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings has announced that it has updated its outlook for coking coal and iron ore, adjusting its 2025 and 2026 price assumptions to reflect stronger-than-anticipated market conditions and shifting supply fundamen

Soaring U.S. natural gas prices—driven by extreme cold and record LNG exports—have made coal a cheaper option for power generation.

Sen. John Hoeven, R-ND, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, reintroduced the National Coal Council Act to preserve the National Coal Council (NCC) and help secure the future of U.S. coal production.

China’s long-term benchmark power-station coal price for 2026 has been set at the same level as this year, according to traders with knowledge of the matter.

In August 2010, I traveled to Pueblo for a tour of Comanche 3. The coal unit, Colorado’s largest, with 750 megawatts of generating capacity, had begun producing electricity a few weeks before.