The world's coal-fired power fleet inched up by 18.8 gigawatts in 2024, its lowest rise in two decades, but new additions in China and India continued to offset closures elsewhere, data from U.S. think tank Global Energy Monitor showed on Thursday.

China and India’s coal-power boom is undermining the world’s shift from the heavily polluting source of electricity, according to a new report from Global Energy Monitor.

The facility, in Colstrip, Mont., used a new E.P.A. system for requesting special waivers from President Trump.

The world's biggest listed miner BHP Group considered spinning off its Australian iron ore and coal divisions as part of a medium-term growth strategy, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Without programs provided by NIOSH, people in the mining industry and researchers are scrambling to find what else can be done to serve coal miners in our region.

Linda Slovernick’s husband works at the Kemmerer coal mine that recently laid off 28 workers. Though he survived the cut, her husband is “the breadwinner of the household,”

The Trump administration on Tuesday took a key step toward leasing new areas to a North Dakota coal mine that is proposing to operate through 2045.WHY IT MATTERSThe publication of a draft environmental analysis of new lease areas for North Dakota's Freedom Mine is aligned with President Donald Trump's goal to increase U.

Five miners died on Monday and four were injured in an accident in a coal mine in the northern Spanish region of Asturias, the regional emergency services said.

Underground tours exploring coal mining in West Yorkshire have resumed, after being halted for more than three months to allow new equipment to be installed. Tours at the National Museum of Coal Mining, in Wakefield, were paused in December to allow a new winding engine - which powers the mine's lift - to be fitted.

The world added the smallest amount of new coal capacity in two decades last year, a report said Thursday, but use of the fossil fuel is still surging in China and India.