U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has issued an emergency order to address critical grid reliability issues facing the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

Virginia Tech is one of 14 universities at the forefront of a federal push to expand domestic mining and mineral operations following a $100 million educational investment announced in early August.

DOE has announced a $500 million award to support a $1 billion investment at Cleveland-Cliffs’ Middletown Works facility in Middletown, Ohio.

A former mine foreman is claiming he and another supervisor were fired after they raised concerns about safety at the sprawling underground coal operation in Greene County, Pennsylvania, following the death of a miner in May.

The Colombian government on Friday signed a decree authorizing the resumption of coal exports to Israel, reversing a ban imposed under former President Gustavo Petro amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

India’s coal demand is set to jump to 1.6 billion tons in 2030, from about 1.2 billion tons now, due to higher electricity generation and industrial activity, Indian Coal Secretary Vikram Dev Dutt said on Friday.