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The federal government is moving forward with leasing thousands of acres of land in west Alabama for coal mining, a move that will drastically increase coal exports from the state. The move could ...

Following the purchase of two mature assets, Australian miner Whitehaven Coal has added metallurgical coal production on top of its traditional thermal coal mining activities. The purchase has also ...

The U.K. is repurposing abandoned coal mines into geothermal heating systems, with early projects showing the technology ...

Deep in the hills of West Virginia, coal mining and the dangers that come with it have been a part of families’ lives for ...