Energy Top Stories

Teck Resources weighs sale, spinoff of $8 billion coal unit

Exiting coal could free up resources for Teck to accelerate its plans in commodities like copper.

Bloomberg News | September 14, 2021 | 11:57 am

BHP’s net-zero targets don’t include its steelmaking customers

The company says it’s working with industry giants including Japan’s…

Bloomberg News | September 14, 2021 | 9:22 am

Democrats’ energy plan will kill US coal by 2030, miners say

The Clean Electricity Performance Program proposed by House Democrats authorizes…

Bloomberg News | September 14, 2021 | 7:53 am

China intervenes in oil market with historic sale of reserves

The announcement comes amid surging energy costs in China and…

Bloomberg News | September 10, 2021 | 2:21 pm

Harvard’s $42bn fund to end investment in fossil fuels

Harvard's massive endowment will support the world’s green energy transition.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 10, 2021 | 3:50 am

Trump’s latest plan for saving coal comes from the Cold War

Trump campaigned on a promise to bring back coal that is increasingly being edged out of the U.S. power market by cheap, cleaner-burning natural gas.

Bloomberg News | April 19, 2018 | 1:01 pm

UK goes a record 55 hours without coal as clean power expands

Coal, which fueled the world’s biggest economies for more than a century, is increasingly losing out to renewables.

Bloomberg News | April 19, 2018 | 11:03 am

Rare earths extracted from coal mining by-products

Researchers at West Virginia University expect to start extracting, refining and taking to market rare earth elements in a couple of years.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | April 17, 2018 | 4:57 pm

South Africa’s Eskom says facing coal shortages at 7 power plants

Eskom supplies around 95 percent of South Africa's electricity, predominantly by burning coal.

Reuters | April 17, 2018 | 9:31 am

Which has the bigger economy: Texas or Russia?

Even though Russia has nearly five times as many residents as Texas, the Lone Star State's economy is more than $40 billion larger.

Frank Holmes - U.S. Global Investors | April 16, 2018 | 10:54 am

IMF resumes lending to Chad following Glencore debt deal

The Central African oil producer reached an agreement in principle to restructure its more than $1 billion debt to Glencore and four banks.

Reuters | April 15, 2018 | 5:18 pm

Senate confirms former coal lobbyist to be EPA’s number two

Andrew Wheeler was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to be EPA’s deputy administrator by a vote of 53 to 45.

Bloomberg News | April 13, 2018 | 11:07 am

Major banks earned more in metals than oil last year

The world’s 50 biggest investment banks made revenue of $1.6 billion from trading, selling derivatives and other activities in metals last year.

Reuters | April 13, 2018 | 10:46 am

Poor left out of mining profits as ‘resource curse’ hits Kenya

There were cases of displacement of communities, workers subjected to unsafe conditions, as well as soil, water and air pollution.

Reuters | April 12, 2018 | 2:03 pm

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