Several emerging factors provide a long-term positive external environment for the global coal industry, but also, more specifically, for Peabody Energy.

Coal and lignite generation increased across Southeast Europe in Week 42 even as overall thermal output fell, highlighting the continued role of solid fuels when gas prices rise and electricity systems require dispatchable generation.

Officials confirmed a deputy died Saturday afternoon after an accident involving a coal truck in Logan County.

Coal-fired power still accounts for around half of Vietnam's electricity generation, while the country's current power development plan envisages ending the use of coal for power generation by 2050.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Russian forces had targeted "thermal power plants, substations, coal mines, grain silos, shopping centers, and a postal terminal" overnight.

In India, coal stocks at power plants continue to worsen, with the latest data showing 98 plants with critical stocks sufficient to sustain only six days of operations, even as the government has ramped up supplies to power plants.