Coal

Cloud Peak Energy’s Antelope coal mine has won this year’s State of Wyoming Reclamation Award for restoring areas of cheatgrass-dominated land.

A new report of the IEA Clean Coal Centre discusses developments in circulating fluidised bed combustion.

Algae.Tec to build algae carbon capture and biofuels facility alongside Macquarie Generation plant in New South Wales.

Thunder Basin Coal Company mine receives the Rocky Mountain Coal Mining Institute’s 2013 safety award.

US coal miner, Arch Coal, has sold its Canyon Fuel Co. assets in Utah to Bowie Resources for US 435 million.

Gregory Boyce, chairman and CEO of Peabody Energy, has commended new measures to improve urban air quality in China, while maintaining its use of coal to power economic development.

Biggest quarterly decline in coal prices in a year force mining companies to look to cut costs.

President Barack Obama has announced wide ranging plans to limit US carbon emissions, including capping emissions from power plants.

Linc Energy is in early talks to by a Queensland coal mine from BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance.

Mining operations in Scotland will be aided by reduction in charges, according to Energy Minister.

Tenaska cancels plans to build US$3.5 million UCG plant in Taylorville.

A recent report from the US Energy Information Administration shows US coal exports to Asia growing from 2% of total in 2007 to 25% in 2012.

Union claim lifetime benefits for mineworkers, established in 1946, are under threat.

US Bureau of Indian Affaird approves option to lease and exploration agreements between Cloud Peak Energy subsidiary and Crow Tribe of Indians.

A bill that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agecy regulating coal ash as hazardous waste has passed through the House Energy & Commerce Committee and will now go to a vote in the full House of Representatives.