NEWS: World’s largest private coal mining company is mired in debt after failing to anticipate price downturn
NEWS: Staunch opponent of climate laws and science misses interest payment as global coal price slump continues
NEWS: Clean power plan and global demand slowdown hit mining companies for the dirtiest fossil fuel
PGE has announced a strategy to go 100% renewable by 2050, but it depends on passing responsibility for coal mines to another Polish state-owned entity
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is urging Congress to make coal mining companies pay for environmental clean-up and reduce the risk to taxpayers
Companies owned by WV governor exploited a supposedly temporary status to defer environmental clean up and leave miners in limbo, in some cases for decades
Regulators have almost wiped out risky practice since 2015-16 wave of bankruptcies, but some coal companies still insure themselves
The Reclaiming Coal investigation involved six months of crunching data from state and federal agencies, coupled with travel across the country
Schemes that favour coal companies in Appalachia have left a national shortfall experts said was ‘one of the biggest public failures that has gone under the radar’
History shows governments that don’t anticipate and make provisions for the decline of coal burden communities for generations
Documents obtained by Climate Home reveal a growing crisis as big miners and government shift liability to small companies who cannot afford coal mine clean up
Cutting US emissions will wipe out thousands of jobs, but create more than a million in greener manufacturing industries says study
Coal has entered a structural decline, say experts, leaving gas as the second largest source of carbon behind petroleum
Experts say proposed power plants in India, China, Vietnam and Indonesia would blow Paris climate deal if they move ahead, reports the Guardian
US solar giant accused of wild spending spree, but industry in good shape says Indian energy minister and analysts at Bloomberg
Energy minister says power realities are changing fast, predicting a fast uptake in solar energy despite concerns over baseload and storage
NEWS: Analysis firm sees brighter future for mining companies, but climate researchers disagree
NEWS: Bank says it will stop funding new coal mines or plants in the 30 OECD nations, but could still back projects in developing world
INTERVIEW: Despite climate concerns, hundreds of coal plants are being built worldwide. The World Coal Association argues governments should stump up for cleaner technology
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