US coal news

In August 2017, coal stockpiles at electric power plants were 144 million short t, the lowest monthly level since late 2014, according to the EIA’s Electric Power Monthly.

Air Products signs a cooperation agreement with Yankuang Group to build a US$3.5 billion coal-to-syngas production facility in Yulin City, China.

Petra Nova, a joint venture between NRG Energy Inc. and JX Nippon, wraps up a successful first year of operations.

Officials from the US NIOSH, the OSMRE, the NMA and the Bureau of Land Management honour top safety, environmental and technology leaders in the mining industry.

US Coal miner Armstrong Energy files for Chapter 11 reorganisation as part of strategic transaction.

Canyon Consolidated Resources agrees to purchase Bowie Resource Partners, effectively buying out Galena Private Equity Resource Fund's equity stake in the subject assets. 

American Resources Corp. ships its first unit train of thermal coal from its previously idled Mill Creek coal preparation plant in Kentucky.

Clean Coal Technologies signs MoU with the School of Energy Resources, University of Wyoming, to further develop the commercial potential of CCTI’s coal beneficiation technology.

Construction at Poplar Grove continues to accelerate with Paringa Resources recently completing the foundations for the CHPP and appointing a new Sr VP of Coal Sales & Marketing.

Luminant has revealed plans to close two Texas power plants: the Big Brown Power Plant and Sandow Power Plant in early 2018 due to economic unfeasibility.