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An embattled coal terminal could be a lifeline for US coal
California, United States – Margaret Gordon had seen her grandson racked with asthma in the early 1990s in West Oakland in California. Fumes from the trucks carrying freight from the nearby port, among the United States' largest, led to one…
Trump ordered coal plants to stay online. It's costing taxpayers $117 million
A Trump administration push to keep aging Midwest coal plants alive could cost Americans billions of dollars in the coming years, including $117 million in the state of Wisconsin alone, according to the state's governor. “Not only are you…
How the threat of an ICE detention center galvanized a Trump-country coal town
Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When Joe Wiscount was a teenager in Tremont, Pennsylvania, a tiny town in a region once ruled by coal barons, he worked a summer job…
Coal Ministry to release annual mine closure report, sign technical cooperation pact with GIZ
The Ministry of Coal is set to release Annual Report on Mine Closure (AAROH) and sign an Implementation Agreement with Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to boost the coal industry, as per a statement by the Ministry of…
Newcastle City Council to take over Neville Hall Mining Institute
Tom MacDougall North East and Cumbria A city council will take control of a 19th-Century Grade II-listed building after the charity which previously ran the building struggled with its cost. Neville Hall was built in 1869 and served as headquarters…
Tyne Derwent Way board game celebrates area's industrial heritage
Long-gone names and places that helped shape an area's industrial heyday are being brought back to life with a board game. Now a nine-mile (14km) nature trail, the Tyne Derwent Way, which connects historic sites between the National Trust's Gibside…
AI Can Cut Industrial Power Bills by Double Digits Within Five Years: Says GNA Energy's Sanjeev Kumar
India's energy market is passing through the kind of structural reform that reshaped telecom two decades ago. Open access is widening, market-based power trading is being rolled out, and coal has just been brought under a formal exchange regime…
Knowledge Nugget: India's Core Industries Index gets a major overhaul. Here's what changed
2. The new changes made in the ICI are based on the recommendations of a committee constituted under the chairmanship of Praveen Mahto in November 2025. Owing to intensive use of Iron Ore in the production process, and its contribution to…
Asia's Fuel Importers Seen Facing 'Geopolitical Flux' for Years
Asia's reliance on fossil fuel imports will potentially keep nations exposed to global volatility in energy supplies for decades, according to a veteran observer of the region. About 90% of Asia's primary energy use still comes from oil, gas and…
We asked AI where data centers should go. The answers may surprise you
If artificial intelligence had a say in where the massive data centers powering it should be built, the answer would not be 'anywhere and as fast as possible.' When Newsweek asked several leading AI models where new data centers should go, they…
AI's Accountability Era: From Token-Maxxing To Value-Maxxing
Roman Shemet, CEO and founder of Cactus, is also a former university Quant and Economics researcher. For the past two years, enterprise AI success has been measured in consumption. Companies celebrated how many employees used AI tools, how many…
Editorial: Rockin' the River makes excellent use of the Susquehanna River waterfront
For as long as there was a levee, Wilkes-Barre City was cut off from the very waterway that had spawned its existence. The Susquehanna River had attracted Native Americans for generations, and then became the lure for European settlers who found…
Top climate leaders meeting in Chicago for annual Aspen Institute conference
Record heat and major air quality issues created by wildfire smoke were key topics as some of the top climate leaders from around the world gathered in Chicago this week for the Aspen Institute's annual climate summit. Aspen Ideas: Climate is being…
Poland Seeks To Curb Dependence On Big Tech With 'Sovereignty Test'
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks during a news conference following the European Council summit in Brussels on June 19, 2026. (Photo by Daniel Gnap/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Poland is preparing to implement a 'technological sovereignty…
US agency proposes ending racial and gender workforce data collection
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the chief regulatory agency for enforcing US anti-discrimination laws, has proposed ending a decades-old requirement that US employers submit annual data on the racial and gender breakdown of…
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