April 20, 2018 South Africa’s Eskom gets workaround to tackle coal shortages The state-owned utility is seeking coal for seven of its plants that are facing shortages after supply disruptions from Gupta family-controlled mines.
April 20, 2018 HSBC pulls the plug on coal Europe’s largest bank won’t fund new coal power plants, oil sands and arctic drilling, except in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam.
April 19, 2018 Trump’s latest plan for saving coal comes from the Cold War Trump campaigned on a promise to bring back coal that is increasingly being edged out of the U.S. power market by cheap, cleaner-burning natural gas.
April 19, 2018 UK goes a record 55 hours without coal as clean power expands Coal, which fueled the world’s biggest economies for more than a century, is increasingly losing out to renewables.
April 17, 2018 Rare earths extracted from coal mining by-products Researchers at West Virginia University expect to start extracting, refining and taking to market rare earth elements in a couple of years.
April 17, 2018 South Africa’s Eskom says facing coal shortages at 7 power plants Eskom supplies around 95 percent of South Africa's electricity, predominantly by burning coal.
April 16, 2018 Which has the bigger economy: Texas or Russia? Even though Russia has nearly five times as many residents as Texas, the Lone Star State's economy is more than $40 billion larger.
April 15, 2018 IMF resumes lending to Chad following Glencore debt deal The Central African oil producer reached an agreement in principle to restructure its more than $1 billion debt to Glencore and four banks.
April 13, 2018 Mining billionaire backs outback gas pipeline to ease power woes The project, being considered by the federal government, may cost as much as A$5 billion ($3.9 billion), according to one industry estimate.
April 13, 2018 Senate confirms former coal lobbyist to be EPA’s number two Andrew Wheeler was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday to be EPA’s deputy administrator by a vote of 53 to 45.
Critical Metals expects to close Greenland supply deals in Q1 2026, CEO says The company has already pre-sold 75% of planned output, split between the US and Europe. December 31, 2025 | 12:08 pm
