Coal Industry News

China Releases Draft Revision of ETS Accounting Rules for Coal Power Plants -- OPIS

China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment on Thursday released a consultation draft updating emissions accounting and verification rules for coal-fired power plants under the national emissions trading system, revising key calculation parameters…

What Donald Trump wants for the American coal industry

Several States Contest Federal Orders Keeping Coal-Fired Power Plants Open

Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A three-judge federal appeals panel is expected to issue a decision by year's end on a lawsuit challenging Energy Secretary Chris Wright's May 2025 emergency order that prevented a…

The world built more coal power in 2025, but used less

Coal is a key contributor to planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, and phasing it out is crucial to taming climate change. The growing affordability and abundance of renewable energy means solar and wind power can now cover growing electricity…

Kim Kelly: Coal miners are dying, and Trump betrayed them

Since the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump and his acolytes, right-wing media, and coal industry barons and lobbyists have obsessively painted the picture of Trump as a friend to coal miners and the so-called “undisputed champion of…

Bord na Móna hands over former Suttons Coals site in Cork Docklands for housing development

The planned development of the former coal yard will add to the LDA's ongoing activity in Cork, where already close to 1,400 homes are either in planning or already under construction. The transfer of the Suttons Coals site to the agency follows…

India's coal stock position comfortable as power demand hits new record

India's peak power demand this week has been breaking records, surpassing 265 GW on Wednesday, yet the country's coal stocks remain comfortable. Thermal power plants hold 51.98 million tonnes of reserves against a daily consumption of roughly 3.10…

Four people in Shanxi Province placed under criminal coercive measures over suspected illegal mining damage to Ming Great Wall

Ming Dynasty Great Wall in Ningwu county damaged by illegal mining Photo: thepaper.cn Four people have been placed under criminal coercive measures on suspicion of illegal mining and damaging cultural relics, and the company involved has been…

How a remote patch of Gobi Desert became central to China's national security

As the war in Iran disrupts global oil and chemical supplies, China's coal-heavy energy sector is seizing an unprecedented opportunity. Dannie Peng visits the Changji Hui autonomous prefecture in Xinjiang – one of the country's four major…

The Market's Revenge on Energy Statism

There are few contemporary experiments as instructive for the friend of liberty as the one currently unfolding in Argentina. Beneath the soil of Patagonia, in the province of Neuquén, lies a 30,000 km geological basin known as Vaca Muerta…

Value creation, bullshit jobs and the future of work

We create a job whenever someone with the authority to hire decides the value created is greater than the wages paid. In my lifetime, we've invented 7 billion or more jobs, which is great news. Great for the people who were able to earn a living…

Eva v Goliath: the 20-year-old climate activist taking on Trump and the fossil fuel industry

Eva Lighthiser was at a dorm party on her Colorado college campus last month when she had to call it an early night. “I said, ‘Hey, I've got to go to bed, I'm flying out to Portland tomorrow,' and then of course follow-up questions…

Prabowo's biggest crackdown on tycoons shocked his own officials

In early May, President Prabowo Subianto summoned a handful of his most trusted advisers to his house in south Jakarta to discuss how to find more revenue as surging oil prices stretched Indonesia's finances. The small group eventually agreed on a…

All hopes rest on Katowice to deliver on climate pledge - Opinion

General view shows the opening session of the COP23 United Nations Climate Change Conference on Nov 6, 2017 in Bonn, western Germany. [Photo/VCG] On a staid note, that's how the UN Climate Change Conference ended in Bonn, Germany, over the weekend…

China's Hormuz Workaround Is Making India Jealous

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sent the vast Asian chemicals industry into a tailspin. Deprived of the likes of Qatari natural gas and Saudi Arabian oil, the region's fertilizer and plastics plants are slowing production or even shutting…