The answer is complicated. The good news: federal regulation is coming. The bad news: the new regulations have some serious loopholes - and they won't reduce selenium pollution in the Elk Valley until 2025 at the earliest. We need strong federal regulation for selenium pollution from coal mines as
Louis Joliet and Pere Marquette, returning from an expedition on the Mississippi River in 1673, were the first explorers to notice the combustible material that would shape the Illinois economy. The coal just sat there on the surface near Utica along the Illinois River. The first mine appeared near Peoria not
China said on Friday it plans to create several "super-large" coal mining companies by the end of 2020 as the world's biggest producer of the fuel ramps up years of efforts to streamline the fragmented sector and slash outdated capacity. The country's National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC)
The answer is complicated. The good news: federal regulation is coming. The bad news: the new regulations have some serious loopholes - and they won't reduce selenium pollution in the Elk Valley until 2025 at the earliest. We need strong federal regulation for selenium pollution from coal mines as
A 19th century church in Germany was demolished this week to make way for coal mining. St Lambertus Cathedral - a church known by locals as Immerather Dom - in Immerath, a tiny farming village northwest of Cologne, was razed to the ground on Tuesday. The double-spired church, thought to have
A year after recording a record low of eight coal mining deaths in 2016, the number of mining deaths nearly doubled to 15 deaths in 2017. Eight of those deaths were in neighboring West Virginia with two mining deaths in Kentucky. No other state had more than one coal-mining death during the year, with
Bulldozers and excavators turned the bell towers of a late 19th century church in western Germany into a pile of rubble on Tuesday to make way for a massive open-pit coal mine. The St. Lambertus Catholic church in Immerath, west of Cologne, was one of the last major structures to remain standing in the
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Murray, the chief executive one of America's largest coal mining companies, criticized U.S. regulators on Tuesday for rejecting the Trump administration's proposed subsidies for aging coal and nuclear power plants - saying the decision could lead to higher electricity costs
Immerath and its church have been doomed since 2013, when Germany's constitutional court found that there was an overwhelming public interest in allowing energy firm RWE to expand its nearby Garzweiler open-cast brown coal mine. Almost all the 900 villagers have long since quit their homes, among
FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2007 file photo, Robert "Bob" Murray, founder and chairman of Cleveland-based Murray Energy Corp., arrives at a news conference at the entrance to the Crandall Canyon Mine, in northwest of Huntington, Utah. In the early days of the Trump administration, Murray, the head of one of
BOGOTA - Production and exports at Cerrejon, Colombia's largest thermal coal mine, fell in 2017 for the third straight year as heavy rainfall affected operations, the mine's owners said on Wednesday. Output reached 31.9-million tonnes in 2017, 0.3% below the previous year. Exports totalled 31.7-million
A 19th-century village cathedral in western Germany was razed to the ground on Tuesday to make way for the expansion of coal mega mines.
Cerrejon's offer is above the 4.09% inflation for last year, but Amaya said its offer does not meet union expectations given strong coal prices in recent months. If union members vote to strike, the stoppage could begin three days after. The last strike in Cerrejon, which produces coal at its open pit mine in La
After all, here we are at the start of 2018 still talking about the prospect of allowing the largest thermal coal mine in Australia to proceed, heavily subsidised by the taxpayer, opposed by over 70 per cent of people who know about the project, in a context of the thermal coal trade in structural decline and in the
Open pit coal mines have become a major political issue in Germany, which still relies on coal for about 40 percent of its energy needs despite pledges to move to cleaner energy sources to meet climate change commitments. Some 25 percent of energy needs are met by power plants fired by high-polluting
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Robert Murray, the chief executive one of America's largest coal mining companies, criticized U.S. regulators on Tuesday for rejecting the Trump administration's proposed subsidies for aging coal and nuclear power plants - saying the decision could lead to higher electricity
The first mine appeared near Peoria not long after, but it wasn't until 1830, when coal from Belleville found a market in nearby St. Louis, that the industry took off, according to Keith Weil and Alvin K. Grandys, who wrote the 1976 Illinois Coal Digest, a publication from the Illinois Department of Business and
ALBERTA - The soon-to-be new owner of the Grande Cache metallurgical coal mine northwest of Edmonton says they want to reopen it. The previous operator was forced into
Additionally, the company must get its ducks in a row, McKerracher told the Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) board of directors Jan. 5. "On the principle of the whole operation my council chose not to support the project. We support coal mines, absolutely," he said, but the Bingay project has been
The first mine appeared near Peoria not long after, but it wasn't until 1830, when coal from Belleville found a market in nearby St. Louis, that the industry took off, according to Keith Weil and Alvin K. Grandys, who wrote the 1976 Illinois Coal Digest, a publication from the Illinois Department of Business and