Coal Top Stories

Wyoming Innovation Center receives ‘Overcoming Adversity’ award

The center is home to companies and researchers developing commodities like asphalt, graphene, graphite, agricultural char, carbon fiber and more — using coal and coal byproducts.

Staff Writer | December 5, 2022 | 1:06 pm

Colombian president calls for mining code reform

Gustavo Petro said that an update is urgent because the…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | December 4, 2022 | 1:15 pm

Rising credit risks pose huge challenge for the worst polluters

Companies most susceptible to credit risks are those involved in…

Bloomberg News | November 30, 2022 | 10:20 am

Barclays coal plan exposes reach of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act

The bank now expects to phase out its financing of thermal…

Bloomberg News | November 30, 2022 | 8:16 am

New Australia coal projects to increase methane emissions by 19%

If 15 planned coal mining projects in Australia enter operation…

Bloomberg News | November 29, 2022 | 9:01 am

Europe forced to rely on expensive, dirty coal to keep lights on

The fossil fuel plays a vital role in helping to keep the lights on in Europe this winter even as prices are jumping and lawmakers are doing their best to kill off one of the dirtiest power-plant fuels.

Bloomberg News | January 26, 2022 | 3:34 am

Top coal funder Korea draws critique for slow phase-out plans

Financial institutions in South Korea have failed to keep up with their global peers in setting policies to exit the dirtiest fossil fuel, an activist group said.

Bloomberg News | January 25, 2022 | 6:12 pm

Indonesia’s coal ban sends prices soaring, other exporters fail to step up

High coal prices and the threat of resource nationalism point to a more worrying longer term future for seaborne coal in Asia, writes Clyde Russell.

Reuters | January 25, 2022 | 7:56 am

McKinsey pegs the price tag of a livable climate at $9.2 trillion a year

That’s at least $3.5 trillion more a year than the world is currently laying out for both low-carbon and fossil-fuel infrastructure.

Bloomberg News | January 25, 2022 | 7:42 am

2022 – a year of rebalancing for metals and mining

“The most likely outcome is an environment where commodity prices can settle from the extraordinary highs of 2021. But there are plenty of risks to this outlook," says Wood Mackenzie.

Wood Mackenzie | January 24, 2022 | 5:10 pm

Going green must include nuclear for EU’s largest copper plant

KGHM, the biggest consumer of Poland’s overwhelmingly coal-based electricity, plans to introduce nuclear power into its energy mix this decade.

Bloomberg News | January 24, 2022 | 9:46 am

China lets in most of the Australian coal stranded at its ports

Most of the Australian coal used by steelmakers that was being held at Chinese ports in the wake of Beijing’s import ban has now been cleared.

Bloomberg News | January 24, 2022 | 8:17 am

South32 second-quarter metallurgical coal output falls 15%

South32's metallurgical coal output was hurt by an extension of a longwall form of mining at its Illawarra project.

Reuters | January 23, 2022 | 2:32 pm

China’s carbon market may get stricter under a new proposal

Chinese regulators are mulling a deeper cut in new carbon quotas, a move that would make it more expensive to run small and inefficient coal power plants.

Bloomberg News | January 21, 2022 | 2:58 pm

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