Last week marked the close of the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Belém, Brazil. COP30

Hexagon, the global leader in measurement technologies, has launched GeoMonitoring, a web-based safety monitoring platform.

A preliminary report from the federal Mine Safety Health and Administration says Nicholas County coal miner Steve Lipscomb died a few minutes after the Rolling Thunder Mine was inundated with water on Nov. 8.

Senator Jim Justice, a Republican and former governor of West Virginia, has agreed to pay over $5m (£3.9m) in long-overdue taxes, just hours after being sued by US tax authorities.

EPA has proposed giving a handful of coal-fired power plants an extra three years to continue disposing of their toxic coal ash in large, unlined ponds.

In the first half of November, prices for Australian marine coking coal remained within a limited range ($196-197/t). Market sentiment was cautious and trading was weak.