Coal has been on a two-decade decline in the US, but saw a spike up, alongside energy prices. In China/India, renewables met rising demand.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While many countries around the globe pledge to transition away from fossil fuels to renewable alternatives, the use of coal for ...

Regional coal demand will rise by more than 4% a year through the end of the decade, according to a recent International Energy Agency report.

A mining and processing business in California is replacing one coal plant but says another could stay online for many years. Searles Valley Minerals, a mining and processing plant in Trona, Calif., ...

President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda seeks to promote coal and other fossil fuels as a cheap energy source and to help bring old-school manufacturing back to the U.S. The hitch for ...

A giant excavator with sharp points on a rotating piece runs along a wall of solid coal and creates piles of ground-up coal beneath it in a tunnel with a low ceiling and artificial lighting, as people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blacksmith's coal lies in a mobile forge. Global coal demand is expected to reach a new record high this year, the International ...

As world leaders and thousands of researchers, activists and lobbyists meet in Brazil at the 30th annual United Nations climate conference, there is plenty of frustration that the world isn’t making ...

Metallurgical coal feeds U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works near Pittsburgh. A surprise beneficiary in the budget mega bill signed by President Donald Trump on July 4 is a type of coal used in the ...

A lab in the United States has made high-quality graphite from coal waste. Researchers ...