In MSHA’s annual screening of operations from Oct. 1, 2025, to Sept. 30, 2026, the agency found no pattern of violation notices.

The new multiyear agreement will allow nearly 150 miners to return to production. ARLP forecast 2026 coal sales of 34.5 million to 35.5 million short tons.

A Montana coal mine will supply more than $100 million in coal to Malaysia under a new three-year international energy agreement.

The facility would collect coal ash and convert it into a product that’s used as a cement substitute in concrete production.

“You couldn’t see two feet in front of you,” Mount Carmel Township Brian Hollenbush said about conditions Monday morning from the fire near Locust Gap.

India's thermal coal imports are set to rebound in October as record coal-fired generation and stronger post-monsoon industrial demand lift coal consumption in the world's second-largest importing country.