President Donald Trump announced sweeping executive orders on Tuesday that aim to achieve a goal that has long seemed implausible — bringing a national renaissance for coal, the dirtiest fossil ...

The government has opened up the sector for the private players introducing commercial coal mining through auctioning of coal blocks back in 2020. (Reuters) The government is likely to set up the ...

And many plants that burn coal are simply too old and would need extensive and expensive upgrades to continue running. “It will be very difficult to reverse this trend,” said Dan Reicher ...

FOSTER, West Virginia— Robert Cash, a third-generation coal miner, prays each morning with his fellow miners before going underground for a long shift. In the coalfields of Appalachian West ...

There is one operating coal-fired power plant left in New England ... “Absolutely not,” said Dan Dolan, president of the New England Power Generators Association. “No. And I can underline ...

Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders today to resuscitate the US coal industry – here’s why this is a complete waste of time. Once again, using “emergency authority” by citing ...

We were real proud of him.” Lonnie Briley, trainer of 2025 Kentucky Derby hopeful Coal Battle, said his horse has “matured a lot” since his third-place finish in the Arkansas Derby in his ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday temporarily reinstated dozens of fired federal workers who help screen coal miners for black lung, a deadly and incurable disease caused by inhaling toxic coal ...

President Donald Trump is looking to give coal a lift with executive orders he inked on Tuesday. In one of the executive orders, the president instructed the National Energy Dominance Council’s ...

Eric Anderson, a 44-year-old coal miner, voted for Donald Trump to keep West Virginia’s mines humming and applauded the president’s executive orders allowing power plants to burn more coal.

Instead, the public strongly opposes reviving metallurgical coal mining — also known as coking coal mining — to supply Asian steelmakers. December’s Coal Industry Modernization Initiative ...

The country is also one of the world’s biggest exporters of planet-warming fossil fuels, selling coal, the most polluting fossil fuel, as well as natural gas, in vast quantities to Asian countries.