A parliamentary panel recommends simplifying policies and standardizing protocols for underground coal mining to reduce ...

A parliamentary panel wants simpler rules for underground coal mining. This method has low environmental impact. Current ...

From the days of Mao Zedong, the fuel has underpinned economic growth, millions of jobs and the Communist Party’s founding ...

HULUNBUIR, China (AP) — China is the world’s largest coal producer and consumer. In 2024, the country produced more than 470 million metric tons of coal, accounting for 52.6% of the world’s total.

In the late 1700s to mid-1800s, coal miners worked in dim light, fueled at first by candles affixed to their heads, and later by whale’s oil lamps. Hundreds of years later, Underground Miners, a ...

Parliamentary panel urges simpler rules to boost underground coal mining efficiency.Underground coal mining reduces land ...

The Trump administration has fast-tracked yet another mine, this time a sprawling surface coal mine in Tennessee on private land that The Nature Conservancy oversees and is trying to protect. The ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The federal government has authorized a nearly 1,900-acre expansion of the mine that supplies ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Monday it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to recommission or modernize coal-fired power plants as ...