The world's biggest producer and consumer of the dirty fossil fuel churned out 357.09 million tonnes of coal last month.

A blast at a plant of Russia's steelmaker NLMK destroyed the roof of its coal storage facility and caused a brief fire late on Sunday.

Despite an unexpected energy crunch that left authorities scrambling to guarantee coal supplies over the winter, it is still mostly business as usual for Henan's old mining regions.

Energy security concerns will keep China from supporting the proposal on coal, Bloomberg sources say.

The Central Asian nation of 19 million has become the world's second-biggest bitcoin mining location.

The CO2 reductions represent Scope 1 emissions for Oldendorff and Scope 3 emissions for Teck.