We updated our Coal Markets Report for the business week ending January 9, 2026.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has appointed Chris Hamilton, President and Chief Executive Officer of the West Virginia Coal Association, to serve as a member of the National Coal Council (NCC).

CoalZoom has just learned that highly-respected longwall pioneer, Alan Peacock, left this earth on Wednesday, December 17, 2025, to join his beloved Patricia Bishop Peacock, his wife of 42 years. Alan was 86 years old.

Our long national nightmare of UN bureaucracies exploiting global warming as pretext for forever-increasing taxation, spending, redistribution, and control over Americans is winding down at last.

Crocodile Capital Partners GmbH recently disclosed a new position in Alpha Metallurgical Resources, purchasing 205,119 shares worth about US$41,000,000 and making the miner its second-largest holding at roughly 24.51% of the fund’s reported assets.

On November 8, 2025, a section foreman died after a mine was inundated with water from an adjacent abandoned mine.