They may stop mining hard coal in Germany. The energy source that literally fueled Germany's manufacturing in the 19th and 20th Centuries will no longer come from German mines in the Ruhr Valley. The ...

IBBENBÜREN, Germany — The Germans have a word to describe the long goodbye. Abschiedsstimmung — which translates roughly to “the lingering feeling of saying goodbye or farewell” — could describe the ...

Western sanctions and difficulties with exports to Asia have triggered a serious crisis in Russia's coal industry. Source: Ilya Seredyuk, Governor of Kemerovo Oblast, at a parliamentary meeting; The ...

GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its goals of the conference was to consign coal to history. That turned out to be easier said ...

Anthracite coal converted this region from agrarian to industrial. The discovery of hard coal — and the discovery by Jesse Fell of how to burn the stuff — spurred booms in the economy and population.

Investors are being encouraged to sell their coal-related assets as part of the divestment movement. Even coal-mining companies have participated in the movement. China and India are increasing their ...

Ohio coal miner Robert E. Murray, 72, is still wearing oversize steel-toe boots and a shirt that reads BOB over his heart when he mispronounces President Obama’s name for the third time. Coming from ...

Coal plants backed supply in H1 in cold, calm weather Renewables are preferred power source but hinge on weather Feeds into supply security debate as election nears Coal plants are gradually closed ...

In the offices of Drexel & Co., Philadelphia associates of J. P. Morgan & Co., there is an upstairs room on the walls of which are large maps. When Drexel-Partner Thomas Newhall is talking about ...

Germany announced on Thursday that it would spend $44.5 billion to quit coal — but not for another 18 years, by 2038. The move shows how expensive it is to stop burning the world’s dirtiest fossil ...

GLASGOW, Scotland – In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its goals of the conference was to consign coal to history. That turned out to be easier said that ...

GLASGOW, Scotland — In the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Glasgow, host Britain announced one of its goals of the conference was to consign coal to history. That turned out to be easier said that ...