Category: U.S. News

by bruce watzman What does it take to drive further improvements in mine safety and health to reduce fatalities, injuries and illnesses? Does it take more than accepting the status quo as being the proper course to attain these...

Blaschak Coal Corp., one of the country’s top anthracite producers, has achieved record sales tonnage for 2018. The company’s prepared coal sales were more than 382,000 tons in 2018 — up from the previous sales record set in...

Navajo Transitional Energy Company’s (NTEC) board unanimously approved a resolution on December 29 to continue negotiations with the managing companies of Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and Kayenta mine to acquire operations....

After several years of planning, Indiana-based Blankenberger Brothers Inc. finally appears ready this year to move ahead with construction on the newest steam coal mine in the high-sulfur Illinois Basin (ILB). President Donnie...

In mid-January, President Donald Trump formally nominated Andrew Wheeler, a former energy lobbyist who has led the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in an acting capacity for six months, to serve as EPA administrator. Read...

On December 26, Cloud Peak Energy was notified by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that the average closing price of the company’s shares of common stock had fallen below $1 per share over a period of 30 consecutive trading...

American Resources Corp. signed a multiyear deal with an existing customer that will lengthen and expand its current agreement to supply at least 50,000 tons per month of metallurgical coal over the next two years, beginning in...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Coast Guard accepted a plan to allow salvage operations to begin on January 9 for the barges pinned against the McAlpine Dam on the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky. On December...

In early December, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed revisions to the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for greenhouse gas emissions from new, modified, and reconstructed fossil fuel-fired power...

The city-owned electric utility in Owensboro, Kentucky, is starting to wind down its coal supply agreements in anticipation of the planned closing of its 425-megawatt Elmer Smith coal-burning generating station in less than two...

American Electric Power (AEP) began receiving spot steam coal in the fourth quarter of 2018 as a result of a swift turnaround of a November 1 formal solicitation to buy some spot this year and up to 1.25 million tons per year...

Officials with Akron, Ohio-based First-Energy Corp.’s bankrupt FirstEnergy Generation LLC and FirstEnergy Solutions subsidiaries are urging a federal bankruptcy judge to approve a settlement, before the end of December, between...