The US Environmental Protection Agency on Friday rejected Colorado's plan to comply with regional haze regulations by shutting its coal plants, saying the state needs the plants to remain running to maintain reliable power.

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has released a Fatality Alert related to a Nov. 8 incident at the Rolling Thunder Mine in Nicholas County, WV that killed a miner.

The Blue Creek Mine is a single longwall mine and is expected to have the capacity to produce an average of 6.0 million short tons annually of metallurgical (met) coal over the first ten years of production.

MCPA 2026 Virginia Legislative Activities are scheduled January 28-29, 2026.

For years, the United States has depended on imports of rare earth elements, the critical materials found in everything from smartphones to renewable energy technologies.

The Abbot Point coal port in northern Queensland — Australia's main coking coal-producing region — will resume normal operations on 13 January, following a week of weather-related disruptions.