China’s biggest coal mining company will invest some $24 billion in the construction of a facility for the conversion of coal into petroleum products in a bid to reduce an expected excess in the ...

The country, along with India, is still building power stations that run on coal. Elsewhere, retirements of older plants have slowed. By Max Bearak Global capacity to generate power from coal, one of ...

Retirement of coal-fired power plants in the West has done nothing to reverse global coal demand. Global coal consumption is set to remain at these high levels—or even hit new all-time highs—for a few ...

A research team led by Prof. Shen Yan'an from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has made significant ...

Between raising and lowering tariffs on imported goods, President Donald Trump made time last week to sign an executive order aimed at reviving America’s “beautiful clean coal industry.” The order ...

The chemistry of World War I was largely based on the by-products of coal; the chemistry underlying World War II is based to an amazing degree on the by-products of petroleum. Last week, as if ...

Over the last two decades, 21 coal-fired power plants have shut down across the Western U.S. Twenty-one down, 32 to go. Those numbers are based on a Sierra Club tracker and an L.A. Times analysis.