Coal - 22 January 2016

A round-up of some of this week's key news items from the international coal industry, from outlooks on the US government implementing a halt on coal leases to an innovative concept to deploy CCS in the Europe.

The US Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy criticises the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan in a new report that analyses the regulation’s subjectivity and fairness.

Rhino Resource Partners has completed a definitive agreement between Royal Energy Resources Inc. and Wexford Capital LP where Royal acquires common units of the partnership previously owned by Wexford.

Peabody Energy enters definitive agreement to sell it interest in Prairie State Energy Campus: a 1600 MW coal-fired plant and adjacent coal mine in Illinois, USA.